Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Dr. Gainza Paz appealed for police intervention last week so La Prensa could reopen, the police played deaf...
...Clement Attlee rose to reply, M.P.s could barely see across the chamber through the gloom. A member uttered the traditional parliamentary call: "Candles! Candles!" Electric lights blazed. During Attlee's ten-minute statement M.P.s sat anxiously silent. Churchill leaned forward intently, cupping a hand to an increasingly deaf...
...want to seal the enemy's eyes and ears as completely as possible," Mao Tse-tung once wrote about the Japanese, whom, he now says, the Americans have replaced. "We want to render them blind and deaf; we want to take the heart out of their officers; we want to throw them into utter confusion, driving them insane...
...silent world in which the deaf child lives is not easy for parents to understand. If the child loses his hearing at two or three, he will suddenly feel cut off. "Often he cries easily," says Professor Myklebust, "and tries in other ways to show you that he feels lonely and sad . . . Remember that when the lights are turned out at night he has no contact with you." Hearing nothing, and seeing nothing as well, he will be afraid. "During this time that he is learning to live without sound it is wise to use a night light...
...child is born deaf, he is at first better off. Later, however, he lives a life of terrifying confusion. Usually, he hears no explanation for sudden and unexpected events, never hears the thousands of words that tie daily happenings together. Gradually, he begins to learn that he is different from other people. He notices how easily his brothers & sisters make their own wants known. He begins desperately to want to hear, not because he misses the sounds he has never known, but because he is jealous...