Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this before an international group of doctors and speech therapists here in London and when I finished, they were speechless. I didn't get any offers from the London Symphony Orchestra, but I got a writeup in the speech therapy official journal-having achieved, apparently, something which was thought by most experts to be impossible...
...cancer, Gargan himself began to complain of a continually sore throat. Doctors discovered he had cancer of the larynx. His voice box was removed, and what was left of his windpipe now ends at a collar-button-level hole in his neck. When he left the hospital, he was speechless. But last week, like the others at the Memphis dinner, Gargan was talking once more-using esophageal speech...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars are as fine as actors...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars, repeating their Broadway roles, are as fine as actors...
...street was littered with 50 slain Europeans and 150 wounded. The line of soldiers who had fired, pulled out the empty clips, reloaded and fired again, now stood speechless and dazed. Their steaming machine pistols lay on the pavement where they had dropped them. Four soldiers were sobbing, and the rest, said a spectator, looked "like boys who have been caught smoking behind the barn." In the hard-pressed morgue, the naked bodies were laid in rows, men and women intermingled. Lacking refrigeration, morgue attendants were limited to hosing down the corpses with cold water. In the middle...