Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator? The Chinese knew. Thy were at war with Japan in 1937, and they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped coolies to the far frontiers to crank out warning of every Nipponese air strike. He saw the big show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month...
...Pseudo scientists" are trying to "frighten" humanity by exaggerating the threat of overpopulation, charged the Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, but Catholic ears should remain deaf to such fears. "If we have faith in God, he will not punish those who follow his command to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth...
...Personnel Records Unit that catalogues each cop's skills, hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in.) to form an honor guard for England's visiting Queen Elizabeth II, who know bees well enough (twelve do) to handle the swarm that appeared suddenly last month in Brooklyn...
...basement of Cleveland's huge Public Auditorium, vegetarian restaurants were serving the kind of meals preferred by strict Seventh-day Adventists. In the gallery two church workers patiently used sign language to translate the proceedings on the floor for deaf-mute visitors. No detail was left to chance by the Adventists' 48th quadrennial World Conference, a smoothly run, ten-day meeting of more than 1,000 delegates from 90 countries, including such Red nations as Poland and Yugoslavia. During services on Saturday -the Adventist Sabbath-20,000 visitors came to pray or watch...
...year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their work being done by the heart-lung machine, the surgeon opened...