She was hard of hearing in one ear, no doubt deafened by her own screaming.
Wendy Callaghan, a mum-of-two from Bedwas, is one of 500, 000 deaf or hard of hearing people in Wales.
For the obtuse and hard of hearing, the Bank of Japan has put its unorthodox agenda squarely in the open.
Likewise, an induction loop or a member of staff who can sign a little will benefit the deaf or hard of hearing.
Similarly, we often had a hard time hearing the voice in the navigation app, even with the volume all the way up.
Northumbria Police said he was not in very good health, could become confused, was hard of hearing and was described as "vulnerable".
The former California governor had become somewhat hard of hearing, so Casey made it a point to seat himself next to the future president.
He told BBC News the 92-year old was "almost completely blind and hard of hearing" but still loved "a good joke and a glass of wine".
Over the last few years, the mobile phone has emerged as a popular device for what at first may seem an unlikely user group: the deaf and other people who are hard of hearing.
There are no exact figures on how many of the 8.7 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK use mobiles and text messaging, but their increasing adoption of this technology is certainly contributing to the more than one billion text messages a month now being sent in Britain.
Dr Ralph Holme, biomedical research manager at the RNID, the charity for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, welcomed the research.
With high unemployment concentrating labour's minds on the here and now, he will find it hard to get a hearing.
Just press and hold a button on the remote control and the My Beam function will instantly "beam" the sound in your direction -- useful for the hard-of-hearing or late-night movie fests while the rest of the household slumbers.
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Lord Archer, who had demanded a personal hearing, will be hard put to avoid expulsion from the party he has spent a lifetime working for.
In the past, merely hearing the song has reduced hard-nosed players into blubbering messes.
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As a woman, hearing this, it is hard not to wonder if we are counted out for certain jobs, certain opportunities, because we do have a family or because we are in our child-bearing years.
"It was hard to believe, " DeJesus said of hearing his former bandmate had been implicated.
At a House committee hearing last month, Democrats came down hard on the trailer companies.
She said after the hearing Friday that she has seen no hard scientific evidence thus far.
The discussions I am hearing about in Whitehall show just how hard it is to do anything about that anxiety.
After hearing his story, I'm hard-pressed not to believe him.
"It is hard to describe the enormous relief we felt at hearing the news of David and Tahir's escape and knowing he is safe, " a statement from Rohde's family said.
Besides, not hearing about Rex Ryan's arm tattoo was pretty hard.
Hagel was in line for hard questions from the 26-member Senate committee at a confirmation hearing Thursday that was expected to be a determining factor in the vote of several senators.
That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.
You also are on your own when navigating hearing-aid providers, where you risk paying too much for hearing aids that make your life miserable because they don't fit, are hard to operate and overamplify background noises.
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