Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad, bright daylight-no time for alarm, let alone tragedy. Yet radio receivers in United Air Lines offices at Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco crackled out a message pregnant with fear: "United 608 sending blind [i.e., calling any station because of emergency]. We have baggage afire aboard this airplane. We are going into Bryce. Don't know if the fire is out yet. We have a smoke-filled airplane...
...among us who had not sustained some injury or other. The brutes killed my 90-year-old father and when my young son rushed to his defense, they speared him to death. I had been injured on my forehead and gushing blood had made me partly blind. A young, cowardly Moslem attacked me from behind with a hatchet, injuring my foot. Before I fell and fainted, I saw some Moslems carrying away my 16-year-old daughter, who put up stiff resistance...
...preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from the dark and universal fear which rests in the slime on the blind sea-bottom of biology...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
Gallerygoers who tried to deduce Yeats's personality from his work might imagine him as an angry, half-blind, stammeringly intense young giant, paint-spattered from head to foot. Murky smears sparked with gobs and drippings of candy-bright color, his huge, swirling landscapes, seascapes and reeling street scenes all look as if they are on fire and half burnt-out already. The panting energy in Yeats's art, and his violent disregard for nature, are impressive and repulsive as well. They are not easy to connect with the wistful-eyed, closemouthed little Dubliner he really...