Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks wheeled confidently in. Muttered one of the men: "They got wrist watches on ... they know it's too early for shooting." The hunters inhaled cigarettes, took a nip from a bottle of bourbon, and waited...
...Pakistan Too Weak?" Even more ominous were the reports that the blind butchery of neighbor by neighbor had reached Kashmir. Pakistan heard that 50,000 Moslems had been slaughtered by Hindus. British officials said that 100,000 fleeing refugees from Kashmir and nearby Jammu had crowded south into the still reeking Punjab...
...Paris Siqueiros became convinced that French-style art was bad, and that Mexicans like Diego Rivera were blind to follow it. Shouting over the wine in Montmartre cafés, Siqueiros gradually formulated a theory to support his furious conviction. He found backers for a short-lived magazine, Vida Americana, in which he fired the opening gun of a fight to make art as useful, well-engineered and open to the public as an up-to-date subway system. "Now," wrote Siqueiros disgustedly, looking at the art around him, "we draw silhouettes with pretty colors...
...dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
Twice in his career, Su was deprived of all rank for "slandering" the Government (i.e., attacking politicians who ruled under the blind or benign eye of one emperor or another); once he was imprisoned, another time exiled to the island of Hainan off the South China coast. He was then an old man, and ill in health. He was set free in time to make his way home for the last time. Two weeks before he died at 64, he wrote his good friend the local abbot: "Life and death are mere accidents and not worth talking about...