Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only rugged, cheerful, clean-cut, abstemious young men in pluperfect health need apply. Those are the boys the U.S. Army wants for its fliers. And then what happens? After these super men fly a few years, some of them become irritable, neurotic, deaf,with stomach trouble, nightmares, high blood pressure, liable to die several years before their time from heart disease. Such a dismaying picture of fliers' occupational diseases might be put together from the solid medical handbook for fliers published last week by famed Army Flight Surgeons Malcolm Cummings Grow and Harry George Armstrong (Fit to Fly-Appleton...
...promote close harmony-as she is sung by Saturday-night whiskey tenors and beery baritones-a device was on sale in Manhattan last week which threatened to bring Sweet Adeline within the reach of all but the tone-deaf. "Listen-n-Sing" phonograph records teach barbershop harmonizing by taking it apart...
...deaf, are dumb, are blind...
Cholera, which he caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...sure to lay off opera; the most important thing about symphonies is the number of minutes it takes to play'em-hold out for the short, noisy ones . . . They got you for the same reason they hooked me-first, you are a sucker and second, you are tone-deaf. That i; the type they want...