Word: deafness
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...third participant in traffic handling, Weinstock, who is a student in the extension school, is deaf, but he can pick up Morse code signals over the wire...
...Friday, Feb. 4, reprimanded ostensibly for the memo, and asked to resign. Lavelle initially okayed a press release announcing the resignation, but had second thoughts over the weekend and decided that as a presidential appointee she could take her case to the White House. The White House turned a deaf ear, however, and issued a curt statement on Monday that Lavelle was "terminated today at the request of the President." Gorsuch fired several of Lavelle's top aides and put an armed guard in front of her office to prevent her from removing files. "I felt my resignation would...
Mags intends to do their portrait, but the Churches paint it for us first. Gardner has been a renowned poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
...those interested in ending the arms race altogether, the new poll should be viewed as inspiring evidence that their message has not fallen on deaf ears. And the latest Reagan moves to reduce endemic military inflation should be pointed out for what they are: an attempt to make relatively superficial reforms while mindlessly continuing to prepare...
...channel had more than its share of premier-week problems. One director resigned in a huff because a series was "full of language I would not use in front of my own children." There was a protest demonstration by members of the Deaf and Dumb Broadcasting Campaign because the channel has no plans for captioned programming. Meanwhile, the actors' union ordered its 30,000 thespians not to appear on any commercials destined for the new channel, which cannot afford the handsome residual rates paid...