Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...
...municipal distributing system in Chattanooga (Commonwealth & Southern territory); 2) for $1,600,000, TVA and 22 cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately owned utilities if they continued their "blind and headstrong course"; 4) the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., accusing that big holding company of "conspiring to monopolize" the natural gas industry in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia...
Jittery as a terrier, he cannot sit still, swivels between two desks, hops up to flip some papers, peers through a cloud of smoke with his one good eye (he has been blind in his right eye since birth). Likable and expansive, he talks incessantly, wrinkles his nose when amused, which is often. Though his job is listening to the public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume...
Citizens of Montgomery, Ala. noticed an old, blind Negro peanut vendor with an unusual line of sales talk: "Get yo' fresh parched peanuts, 5? a bag. Now don't you WTA workers be bashful, I'se got a special discount rate on for you all. Po' boys, we all know you all can't make no livin...
Perhaps it all started when the Vagabond read a candidate's campaign promise that he "would live up to the ideals of 'Veritas'." And all at once the Vagabond felt a blind fury sweep over him as he realized that it had come to this, that the ideal for which men had crossed the ocean, faced hunger, pestilence, and every sort of privation and danger, had now become a cheap symbol to be handed about at election rallies...