Word: deaf
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...animals -- are afflicted with a serious genetic problem. German shepherds, for example, run an even higher risk of hip dysplasia than do golden retrievers. Labrador retrievers are prone to dwarfing. At least 70% of collies suffer from genetic eye trouble, and 10% eventually go blind. Dalmatians are often deaf. Cocker spaniels tend to have bad tempers. Great Danes have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such enormous heads that pups often have to be delivered by cesarean section. Newfoundlands can drop dead from cardiac arrests. Chinese Shar-Peis, the wrinkly dogs that don't seem to fit into their skin, have...
...students' views (as well as the views of others) should be subject to cross-examination. Certainly, The Bell Curve should be discussed, if not for the book's merits, then perhaps for the purpose of allowing free speech the opportunity to disprove its assertions. But the staff turns a deaf ear to Clarke's free speech. Instead of investigating the sources and studies Clarke cites, The Crimson's staff declares that anyone who merely explores those views is guilty of "bigotry, pure and simple." For The Crimson's staff, Clarke's speech is not free and the price of manumission...
...Clark Gable. What's more, Dalton is not given resonant lines like the movie's "All we've got is cotton and slaves and arrogance." Instead he is obliged to say things like "You're trying to pass yourself off as a lady -- you couldn't fool a blind deaf-mute...
...weren't too nervous, you might be able to say something like, "Hello, Mr. President." If you were as nervous as I was on my first trip, you would mumble something incoherent. Nixon would smile at both responses. Perhaps he was kind; perhaps he was deaf...
...feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt." John Doe No. 24 is the poignant testament of a blind, deaf boy found on an Illinois street in 1945. And he's not the only lonely one. In Chapin Country, we're all displaced persons...