Word: manteno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listened. Worse, he was never examined by anyone who could speak Chinese. Nearly three decades went by before anyone even tried to understand. In 1978, a social worker at a mental hospital in Manteno, Ill., took Tom to a Chinese restaurant, where he had a conversation in Cantonese dialect with the cook. There was nothing wrong with Tom, the cook told the hospital staff, setting in motion a four-year battle in the state courts to win his release. Tom's long nightmare had begun when, suffering from tuberculosis, he was admitted to a sanatorium. Because what he said...