For here the past survives in the scent of a coffee bean, a person's history is captured in the shape of an ear, and those most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all.

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The message that only the rich received access to high quality health care under the Tories was lost as a row broke out over the details of the case, which went down in political history as the Battle of Jennifer's Ear.

BBC: CONSERVATIVE VICTORY

Knowing that a child was susceptible to middle ear infections because of a family history of the condition would allow parents to control the child's environment, reducing its chances of becoming ill, he said.

BBC: Ear examination

This wasn't a clot of esoteric names and dates I'd dozed through in high school history, like the Habsburg Succession or the War of Jenkins's Ear.

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'

"The Swing Era" might be uneven as a history of the music, but it shines as a highly opinionated and erudite survey from a brilliant mind with a golden ear and a precise pen.

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