Word: deafer
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Wrathful Prophet. As he grew deafer, he became more paranoiacally suspicious of everyone. He accused musicians of deliberately misreading his music, publishers of trying to cheat him, friends of betraying him. Cooped up alone in his house, he feuded endlessly with servants over trivia, described in minute detail how "brutish" they were. But he reserved his sternest strictures for his nephew Karl...
...Florida the sun shone brightly on a group of old men. There was 76-year-old Bill Green, a little deafer and shakier than he was last year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...
Cholera, which he caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced out of the Prime Minister's office. Some said he was too pro-Russian for Ataturk. The true reason was probably mutual irritation despite mutual respect...
Five years ago Pearl Sydenstricker Buck convinced U. S. readers that there was good earth in China, and that its tillers were sympathetic human beings not unlike themselves. Her masterly translation of another classic truth {All Men Are Brothers; TIME, Oct. 16, 1933) fell on somewhat deafer ears. Last week she attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers...