Word: deafness
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...spends the hours from dusk to midnight dancing, sleeps till dawn. The impulse to dance may seize it any time during the day. Rest periods it passes sleeping, washing, sniffing, eating. Because of its exertions it has to eat & drink much oftener than an ordinary mouse. It is totally deaf...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
...wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor put in, ''Shaw, don't you realize that this is Helen Keller? She is deaf and blind." Snapped brutal poseur Shaw, "Why, of course! All Americans are deaf and blind-and dumb...
Converse with 74-year-old Yukio Ozaki, former Mayor of Tokyo and member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his countrymen, he has seen which way Japan was heading. An unyielding pacifist, he has campaigned for world disarmament since...
...spaniel was one of the best known dogs in the country, certainly the most famous in Cambridge, and has been commemorated in many magazines, as well as in recent books on Harvard. Phantom was stone deaf, and as such was the butt of many jokes...