Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They can stifle it. ... They can debase and vulgarize mankind. They can endanger the peace of the world; they can do so accidentally, in a fit of absence of mind. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words, and uphold empty slogans. [They] . . . can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed. . . ." They can, said the Commission, and they...
Tobey replied that the October 31 deadline would put speculators "on notice when they can make the kill" whereas the longer control period would "make speculators blind...
While Republicans in Washington quarreled over "blind" budget cuts, Tom Dewey won approval for a record $671,900,000 in expenditures, highest in the state's history. Recognizing the need for higher salaries for teachers, he adopted a new scale which was the highest in the nation (but still somewhat less than the teachers had asked). He approved a referendum on a veterans' bonus which would cost the state $400 million, plus interest...
According to Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, Pastor Niemöller "now admits the social blind spot in his type of Lutheranism." It remains to be seen whether such a change is coming about in German Protestantism as a whole. Like Martin Niemöller, many another German has now learned that too much separation between church & state can be as unhealthy as too little...
...Protestant churches have themselves to blame. . . . Few Protestant ministers have brought this issue to their people. . . . They felt that it was such 'a little thing' to get excited about-first free textbooks, then free bus transportation, for parochial schools at public expense. They were blind to the strategy of the Roman Church in using these apparently insignificant matters as the thin edge of the wedge which would ultimately crack open the Constitution...