Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blind Mice...
When Bonifacio Yturbide was three, a severe illness left him permanently blind. But Bonifacio, the son of Basque immigrant parents, had a good mind and a strong will. As he grew up, he found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
...notes with Braille stylus & slate, but mainly he relied on his memory. He earned A grades in all courses, all four years; it was the first such scholastic record established at the University of Nevada in 17 years. Last week at commencement, the eyes of 227 classmates were on blind Bonifacio as he received Nevada's highest scholastic honor, the Herz Gold Medal...
...understandable English, the above is a request for three law students to participate in the "Blind Date" television show. On the program they will compete with the budding sawboneses from Ithaca for the privilege of squiring some lovelies on an expense-paid blind date...
...Communist Party does not automatically "render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher." First, there is proof that many Communist card-holders are not required to follow the party line. In order to keep many "big names" in the party, the Communists do not demand blind obedience to party policies. Second, even if all Communists surrendered their "intellectual integrity," there are large areas of learning where politics is completely irrelevant. An ardent party-liner in the field of government is one thing--his dogma could well make him incompetent to teach objectively--but a party-liner...