Word: deafness
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Wise, fact-demanding Bernie Baruch is 72 this week, and somewhat deaf. But his friends know that when he cups his hand to his good right ear and asks that a question be repeated he is often just stalling. And he can well make a park bench his office: he carries all the facts and principles of war economy in his patrician head...
...Bums Sleep. Bathhouse John died in 1938. The Hink's wife is dead, too, and he is now a lonely man. At 84, he is a mite deaf, but clear of eye and head...
...almost maniac desire for activity that from now on will alternate continually with melancholia and depression." He tries to hang himself with his belt. The job is too unpleasant. He begins to feel the true weight of "utter, bleak silence. It is only in prisons that air is so deaf...
Explanation. In Brooklyn, two holdup men tried to rob deaf Abraham Markowitz of $200. He shouted. They shouted. People began to gather. The bandits fled without the money...
...England textile town. Late in the '20s Emily falls in love with young Harry Collins, and her happiness and his future in the family textile plant seem assured. But life strangely weaves, as Aunt Em remarks, "a sort of pattern." Meningitis suddenly strikes Emily stone deaf; the Depression divides the town into two warring factions. In the clash between labor and capital Emily feels for both sides. ("There it was, I thought, the word 'they' that we all took refuge in. It would always crop up to foster hate and misunderstanding.") She also begins to take...