Word: deafness
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...Schuetz (rhymes with toots), deaf in the left ear since birth, had spent thousands of dollars on ear specialists...
...Walter Millis described it, America's trip down the road to World War I was something like a blind deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...read up on your history? There is no "school for the feebleminded" between Helena and Butte, but a large institute for the deaf, dumb, and blind. Also, the population of Helena...
...Hellenism," which Wilde dramatized to the bitter end. Refusing his friends' advice to flee rather than stand trial, broken by two years' hard labor in prison (productive of his most sincerely questioning work, De Profundis), a drink-cadging exile in the Paris bistros, penniless, bloated, deaf, dying piecemeal at 44 of cerebral meningitis, Oscar could still summon up a deathbed defiance of what he called Philistia. "I am,," said he, tossing off a glass of friends' champagne, "dying beyond my means...
...number of students paraded through the dining hall with an effigy of "Adolph Hurttler, Unser Fushrer" on their shoulders. Several of the men carried signs such as "Kirkland Kentzentration Kampf--Adolph Hurtt, Prop.," "Hire Only Deaf-Mutes," "The Kirkland Gestapo Dictates the Law (the Sanctimonious Sycophants!)" and "Vexation Without Representation...