Word: deafness
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...became convinced of their "selfishness" because, as she explained, "they were deaf to any discussion of economics." During her first meeting with the girls last March, she argued that if the College allowed more than 36 girls to live in apartments, it would lose about $1000 for each girl, the amount each would normally pay in room and board...
...cars to fraudulent property sales and fakery of U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the sheer volume of such crime distracts Interpol from any interest in such divisive matter as spying-or so it proudly claims. "In an affair involving politics, religion or race," runs one of its prime rules, "Interpol is deaf and dumb...
Often, special training means being packed off to a school for the deaf where the child is forced into awareness that he is "different" and less than normal. Also, the hearing aid is frequently not put on until the age of two, when the child has already begun to accommodate himself to a special closed world...
...named it that solely to prevent the U.S. Government from giving it a still more pretentious name. He made its swooping, stainless-steel lines by extruding a rod of steel and welding its ends together, alternately heating and hammering it like the village smithy-and he has become partly deaf as a result of years of this kind of work...
Never has federal money been more available to communities-and seldom has the source been harder to crack. Five separate agencies subsidize sewage treatment, three programs cater to the needs of deaf children, 30 aid training for teachers. Confusion about where to get what has brought forth so many catalogues that the Administration is preparing a Catalogue of Catalogues...