Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, 80, who is well remembered for his short-lived stint as Chief of State in Germany after Adolf Hitler's death, is not happy about his place in history. Interviewed in the German magazine Die Welt, the semi-deaf "Big Lion" of the Nazi war fleet talked about what he considers his real accomplishments: "I was able to prevent 1,850,000 German soldiers from falling into Russian hands. Historians even claim 3,000,000 were saved. My position would be different were I not considered the political successor of Hitler...
...finds himself curiously unable to finish the book. Like that of his own fictional character, Lesser's isolated life bucks the very love he is trying to imagine on paper. Holed up in his self-made prison, he writes, munches apples and turns a deaf ear to Levenspiel, the landlord who wants to get him out so the structure can be replaced by a new six-story apartment building. Lesser is the last tenant, a holdout protected from eviction by a maze of city regulations. Using the world's red tape to keep the world...
...Apartments of the Princes or, familiarly, the Cage. There, behind fences, male children were able to grow to manhood and even old age safe from almost any danger-or knowledge of the outside world. On occasion, an aggressive mother still managed to send an executioner-traditionally a deaf-mute eunuch-into the Cage to strangle her son's rivals...
...bitterness deepened when British troops killed two men, one of them a deaf mute: the army said he had been waving a pistol, while Catholic bystanders claimed he was unarmed. Ulster's Catholics were also angered because the internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating...
Possessed of an almost unsettling cool, Blue says that he concentrates so intently during a game that he is deaf to the cheers of the crowd. Before a game, he relaxes so thoroughly that he often falls asleep on the trainer's table. But once the game starts, he is a different man; he may be the only pitcher in the history of baseball who actually runs to and from the mound. "The A's are a hustling ball club," he says, "and I figured I should be there hustling with the rest of them...