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Word: deaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian Whisper. Giri replies that India has only itself to blame for the Red threat, that Nepal would not need Chinese aid if Nehru took action against the Nepali rebels who use Indian territory as a refuge and a training area. Referring to Rebel Chief Subarna, who is half deaf, Giri adds: "If India just whispered in Subarna's good ear, 99% of the raids would stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: War in the Mountains | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...giant of a man, the half-breed son of an Indian chief. Scarred by World War II and his white mother's destruction of his proud father, he opts out of things so completely that for years the staff of the mental hospital have believed him to be deaf and dumb. His skewed observation of the ward-world is well managed; the reader has a vivid sense both of "the Chief's" sick perceptions and of the reality behind them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in a Loony Bin | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Bigger Than Stereo" [Feb. 2] was read with much interest here at the Ohio School for the Deaf. Five young men from the school assisted me in moving a six-rank Wurlitzer theater organ to my home. One student from Gallaudet College (the world's only institution of higher learning for the deaf) assisted in the electrical and mechanical reconditioning of the instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1962 | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

Most persons who are deaf can hear something so mighty as the Mighty Wurlitzer. The instrument is an endless source of pleasure and fascination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1962 | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

Trodden charged that the proposed Inner Belt highgway will cut through Cambridge, "driving out many families and many thousands of tax dollars." "Although the City Council has suggested many alternative routes to the Hiighway Commission," Trodden said, "the plans have all fallen on deaf ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Controversy Develops Over Road Veto Power | 1/16/1962 | See Source »

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