Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things William Green likes best about being president of the American Federation of Labor is the opportunity it gives him to ride on trains. Mild, deaf, ministerial Bill Green travels 20,000 miles a year on them, but he never tires of the cushioned delights of Pullman bedrooms, is never bored by the sight of flying landscapes. To Bill Green, an old and often lonely man, the railroad ticket is a badge of success, a heart-warming reminder that he is in demand as a speaker, has a salary of $20,000 a year (plus expenses) and a place...
...Interested, I inquired where the mayor was. He turned out to be stone deaf; so I sought out the municipal secretary. He offered to show me the minutes of the town council meetings where the controversy started, and we went to his house. He gave me a rough description of the town councilors, and we laboriously went through the minutes. It was dawn when we finally parted to our respective beds. After a couple of hours' sleep I went straight to Mass to have a look at the priest in the case...
...band and the long columns of troops swung in review, the dust rose over the parade ground at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...
Antonescu (loudly): "I am not deaf. Why are you shouting...
Then Gallo delivered a memorable line: "Speaking as perhaps the only honest man here. . . ." The rest of his speech was drowned in angry shouts. Only deaf Marcovaldi was unmoved by the uproar. The Great Compromiser proposed that a Comitato per la Posizione dell' Orologio-Committee for Determining the Clock's Position-be formed...