Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more clearly does Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin) grasp the coming catastrophe. Younger, and unhampered by erratic thoughts, Mihai Antonescu has a simple plan: if the Anglo-Saxons remain deaf to every whispered invitation to come into Rumania-then quick! To the airport! A plane is waiting to take the supple second in command to Turkey and internment...
Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons...
Hope Deferred. In this world of falling night, the words of the Peace Conference were Europe's only hope. There were Wilson's ("There is a great voice of Humanity abroad in the world just now which he who cannot hear is deaf"), and the "noble words" of Clemenceau: "The achievement of our purpose is not possible unless we remain firmly united. Here we have met as friends, from here we must go as brothers. . . . The League of Nations is here. It is in you, but you must inspire it with the breath of life. . . . We must...
Back to the Hills. The Patrol's success has earned Senior Patrol Officer Ingoldsby a bid for a postwar job in the Navy. To this he has emphatically turned two deaf ears. A self-made man who went through the National Police Academy after quitting high school to work, Ingoldsby thinks little of his postwar Navy prospects. When the war is over, he intends to make a beeline for his job in Virginia's peaceful Blue Ridge mountains, where there are no sailors...
...have no evidence as to what really may have brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about each other or their mutual position and commitments, to think of such an irrational marriage." The elder Santayana, one of twelve children, with the Spanish "dignity in humility," poor, meager, deaf, a painter, a law student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness...