Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courageously turning a deaf ear to rabid nationalists, and ignoring the outlawed Communists who cry out against Yankee imperialism, he pointed to the need for U.S. dollars to put Brazil's economic machine in high gear. He wanted laws that would open up the country to profitable exploitation by foreign capital...
...disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
...Unreal World. One of the things that impressed the doctor-authors in their wartime study of thousands of deaf G.I.s was that the hazards of deafness are largely mental. Their book vividly pictures how it feels to be deaf...
...When you reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...
...fail us, but rather that they stand the racket as well as they do." At 120 decibels (the noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a powerful air-raid siren), it hurts, and grows temporarily deaf. But even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle ear (otosclerosis), a hereditary disorder that usually attacks in childhood...