Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumpus over the British credit made the State Department discourage other large-scale borrowers. Paris papers predicted that France's special "good will" emissary, Leon Blum, expected in the U.S. in mid-February, would ask for $2.5 billion. His pleas might fall on near-deaf ears, even if he should argue that only U.S. aid to France would check the westward tide of Communism. Other prospective borrowers were biding their time, waiting to see what Congress would do with the British loan...
Because he is deaf in one ear, McDonald believes that his judgment is less severe than it might be. To please his good ear, and the ears of thousands of Chicagoans, McDonald and Zenith have been spending $75,000 a year since 1940 supporting WWZR, an FM station which accepts no commercials, broadcasts nothing but music for 17½ hours...
...tidbits and keep the plates. When the Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with a dagger. The book ends when the Duchess dies, and Goya, ferocious as ever but now stone deaf, embarks on an old age diversified with the turmoil and violence of Napoleon's invasion of Spain, which he reported in incomparable etchings...
...also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released to revive the blitzed...
...party would object on the ground that the G.O.P. should not help bail the Truman Administration out of its troubles. But Candidate Stassen, a determined contender for President in 1948, knew that the people were sick of hit-or-miss government, that his proposal would not fall entirely on deaf ears...