Word: deafness
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...dictator's physical condition was terrible. His head wobbled strangely, his left arm hung slackly, his hands trembled uncontrollably. He had never fully recovered from the bomb attack by rebellious army officers the previous July, which had left him partly deaf. Haggard and exhausted, he received large daily injections of vitamins, hormones and morphine. Recalls Ernst-Günther Schenck, now 81, a physician who was in the bunker to the end: "He looked like a man carrying a mountain on his shoulders. He was hunched, drawn into himself like a turtle. His face was a mask, gray and yellow...
...Because of Winn-Dixie, about a motherless girl (AnnaSophia Robb) and her pet dog, was made for an estimated $15 million and pulled in $13 million in its Presidents' Day weekend debut--and it's not even very good. Dear Frankie, a Scottish drama about a fatherless deaf boy (Jack McElhone), has been charming festival audiences and opens this week...
...conversation was to mention two words: Social Security. He remembers a White House meeting in the mid-1980s at which he raised the idea of overhauling the program as a way to cut the deficit--and a top Reagan Administration official pretended to have suddenly gone deaf. Years later, Moore brought it up as Newt Gingrich and his wrecking crew were drafting the Contract with America, which would be their manifesto for taking over the House. Again, no sale. "It was one thing every Republican said was off the table--even these revolutionary Republicans," Moore recalls. So he was more...
Consistently on this page, we have lamented that Harvard administrators are out of touch with students. We have called for greater student outreach when important decisions are up for deliberation. And too often, our appeals have fallen on deaf ears. But there are new indications that our cries have not been in vain...
...tricks of the trade. Turnbull spent a week sleeping in a laundry room, regularly stole half-eaten cheeseburgers from a restaurant just after lunchtime, and finagled free meals from a shelter. He spent a few nights sequestered under the bushes behind a wall at the California Institute for the Deaf and Blind...