Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man in mill-dotted Lawrence (pop. 80,536), Mass., Peter Akulonis had trouble with the police. He was a poor boy. He was deaf in one ear, and a facial paralysis had twisted his mouth. He rebelled against the world by feats of petty crime-once he hung by his fingertips from a third-story roof for ten minutes trying to escape the cops. But back in the 1930s he reformed, got married, grew silent and almost martyr-like in his resolve to lead the humble, uncomplaining life. Peter Akulonis never smiled, but he was good-year after year...
...news brought howls of rage and angry letters from Munich's conservatives. Wrote one aroused citizen: "We don't want Neo-Gothic brick churches, but we don't want gas stations, either." The protests fell on deaf ears. Munich's Lutherans had already steered the design past the city art commission. The ground, they announced, will be broken this month...
...other time, the sight of children playing in his father's garden might have seemed a happy one to young Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet of Hartford, Conn. But on one particular day in 1814, it was not. Among the children was nine-year-old Alice Cogswell-the little deaf girl from next door who could neither speak nor write. As he watched her trying so hard to keep up, 26-year-old Thomas Gallaudet began to think: perhaps he could teach...
Improvising his methods as he went along, Gallaudet did teach Alice, and her physician father was so grateful that he decided Gallaudet should teach other Alices too. Though the deaf in those days were considered all but hopeless, Dr. Cogswell managed to scrape together about $2,000 from friends, even persuaded the Connecticut legislature to make the first state appropriation in the country for a humane institution. By 1817, he and Gallaudet had enough to open a school-the first school for the deaf...
...Poonsters have turned a deaf ear to pleas that the Ibis be allowed to grace a spire on the University of Moscow. Several hundred Radcliffe and College students yesterday signed petitions demanding that the bird remain with the Russians, "to whom it now belongs by right of courtesy...