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tympanic

tim pa nik

  • a  resembling a drum
  • a  associated with the eardrum

  • Thousands upon thousands of tympanic membranes clamped to receiver ends.
  • Thousands upon thousands of tympanic membranes were clamped to the receiver ends of thousands of radio sets.
  • They should be given another warning: that the first and second acts begin with twangs of an electric guitar so tympanic-membrane-splitting that Rush Limbaugh would ask them to .
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  • Column: How to leak and not get caught
    By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - If U.S. prosecutors ever get their hands on Edward Snowden, they'll play such a tympanic symphony on his skull he'll wish his hands never touched a computer keyboard. Should U.S. prosecutors fail, U.S. diplomats will squeeze, as they did in Hong Kong, until he squirts from his hiding place and scurries away in search of a new sanctuary. But even if he finds asylum in a ...
    July 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

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