Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...
...Deaf Ears. From the nerve-racking start to the triumphant finish, the four agreed that there was only one way to battle Lewis-throw everything at him and stay deaf to every counter-offer short of unconditional surrender. The first Administration blows, the injunction and the $3,500,000 fine, thudded home...
TIME's charge that the typical Smalltown weekly takes no stand on issues of the day may be supported by facts, but falls on deaf ears in the case of half a dozen Smalltown newspapers in this Iowa congressional district which fought all the way-fruitlessly, it must be admitted-to unseat a Congressman . . . who accepted the political endorsement of Gerald L. K. Smith. . . . The city dailies of the district supported this Congressman...
...House. Were the Republicans in line for the jobs the best the party had? There was, for instance, John Taber of New York, due to head up Appropriations. Bull-tongued John Taber, blaring away in a speech on wage-hour amendments in 1940, had restored the hearing in the deaf ear of the late Congressman Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois. Schuetz had been deaf since birth. The effect, Schuetz said at the time, made him dizzy. "I had spent thousands of dollars on that ear." But that was one of the few outstanding things John Taber had ever done...