Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists succeed in their aggression," said Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, "we would be the next target. This action is being taken in direct defense of Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
...case of Jack Ruby, who faced a second murder trial before his death last week, a change of venue seemed almost absurd. Probably only a few deaf, blind, illiterate Alaskan Eskimos had never heard of Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only...
...which seemed to fall on deaf ears. Said Non-Student Savio, as the strike continued: "We have gobs of great things popping up because only when we have palpable power will the university listen to our demands. We have power...
...people are students and teachers at the Perkins School for the Blind, a private school with classes from kindergarten through senior high school. Perkins is Helen Keller's Alma Mater. It was the first school for the blind in the United States, and the first to educate a blind-deaf child...
...Alexander Deaf, chairman of the subcommittee that drafted the report, said that currently "there aren't opportunities for really great teachers to show their abilities...