Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. has 6,362 veterans with medical discharges on its payrolls. Westinghouse discovered that 83% of the jobs in some of its manufacturing divisions can be performed by men with one eye. 82% by deaf men, 19% by men with only one leg, and 17% by men on crutches...
...Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube. Old Anton Fischer, who lived on the island, welcomed the independent pig and escorted it to his shack, gravely holding the mayor's umbrella...
Basic American. In Johannesburg, South Africa, an old lady, sitting opposite a gum-chewing U.S. soldier in a suburban train, smiled amiably, finally leaned forward and said apologetically: "It's very kind of you to talk to me, sir, but I am stone-deaf...
What kind of a warden or caretaker is in that King County Jail, or any other jail, that would turn a deaf ear to the screams of an inmate? And a blind eye to wounds that must have been evident from the cruel beatings given...
German measles (rubella), as most adults know it, is a pipsqueak disease which produces only a rash and a mild fever. But if pregnant women catch it, it can give their unborn babies heart disease, cataracts, bad teeth or even make them deaf mutes or idiots. Many such children die in the first few weeks of life. These frightening facts, which have just begun to worry baby doctors, were thoroughly aired last week by Manhattan's Dr. Philip M. Stimson, speaking before the New York Academy of Medicine...