Recruitment materials and DGP staff intentionally used terms "deaf" or "hard-of-hearing" instead of "hearing loss" or "hearing impaired;" "chance" instead of "risk;" "variant" instead of "mutation;" and avoided "normal" or "abnormal".
Instead of hearing why he's protesting, they see the disrespect.
So instead of hearing murmurs now, I read reports.
Instead of hearing heartbeats, he got a fair-to-middling rendition of "Hold Tight".
Now it's even harder to resist the temptation to read Mr. Darnielle instead of hearing him.
"She's just like my students -- they always want to eat instead of hearing me," he said.
I feared that, instead of hearing welcoming cheers along the route, she might be booed and insulted.
People elsewhere in New York and in New Jersey and Connecticut, instead of hearing their own stations, heard Radio Orquídea.
But instead of hearing a door close, or the springs creak, I heard someone coming down the stairs.
FOR a while, it seemed as though audiences might be singing the blues instead of hearing them in Riverhead next weekend.
Instead of hearing the roars of Royal St .George's, the big, ruddy-faced Clarke played to sympathetic silence or collective groans.
