Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lone dissenter was Miss Jeannette Rankin, Montana Republican, grey-haired pacifist who also voted, with many a tear, against the declaration of war on April 6, 1917. This time Miss Rankin, to whose pleas for recognition the Speaker was conveniently deaf, mostly sat, with a bewildered smile, muttering over & over to all those who pleaded with her to change her vote: This might be a Roosevelt trick. How do we know Hawaii has been bombed? Remember the Kearny! I don't believe it. In Montana, Republicans raged, cried shame...
...Only other undefeated (but once tied) big-league team is Notre Dame. Like Minnesota, the Fighting Irish are deaf to Bowl bids...
...title for the fourth successive year are the Cleveland Barons, owned by Cleveland Inkman Albert Sutphin and managed by Bill Cook, onetime Ranger star. For several years, the National League has tried to get Cleveland to join its lopsided seven-team loop. But Owner Sutphin has turned a deaf...
...series of related episodes, How Green lacks the dramatic vigor of a unified story, but it has a kind of sustained theme in the relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good...
...allegory involving a strange young man and two deaf mutes, makes Mississippi seem like Tsarist Russia...