Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buck, because, it claimed, any stand would influence present negotiations between the CIO and "Little Steel" on the same issue. Meanwhile, the strike date was approaching, Mr. Roosevelt sent three letters to Lewis requesting that he hold off until a settlement could be reached, John L. turned a deaf ear, and the issue rode into its present crisis stage...
...mother should not kiss and cuddle her baby, should turn a deaf ear when he cries, should feed and tend him with cold regularity. So ran the advice most pediatricians gave parents a few years ago. But many of these "scientific," timetable children have grown up neurotic, unhappy. So the doctors have returned to Nature: they now believe in old-fashioned mother love and intelligent laissez faire...
...some of the strange poetry of war: "I was suddenly close to the smallest and lowest creatures, the insects and worms, everything that crawled and writhed humbly and flatly on the ground." The worms went on about their business while the shells exploded (they are, as Darwin learned, quite deaf), the bees hummed, and now and then, between explosions, a bird sang. "It sometimes seemed that we were already in our graves, half alive and half dead: and most curiously, the whistling shells meant life and the buzzing bees and singing birds meant death...
...Summer Night: the finest of them, is a subtle story using only one dubious trick -a deaf woman's memory-and telling of a night-crazy little girl, a faded husband, a pathetically ill-matched rendezvous, a tortured, aging male virgin...
...Rome said that Russia was about to add a deaf-mute regiment to the Army. Reason: to prevent telling the enemy secrets...