Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, numbly or with blind desperation, they tried to stay alive. The lights went out on many floors after a while, but scores of people crept out into the hot, dark, smoke-filled corridors hunting for fire escapes. Gasping dozens suffocated, lay still after going a few feet. A few people shut themselves into bathrooms. Most stayed at their windows, screaming, waving sheets, tossing down lamps and bric-a-brac to attract attention...
Taylor Caldwell, authoress of the current No. 1 fiction best-seller (This Side of Innocence), gave a Manhattan reporter an interview which made her look like Olivia Twist. She was not disciplined as a child, she told the New York Post-she was "brutalized." She nearly went blind for lack of glasses. She was put to work in a bindery at 15, lost most of her hair in a machine, later "made $22 a week in an office job-and got 65? of it for myself." She finally got through high school at 25, college...
...juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame to walk. We, too, believe in ministering to the people's everyday wants in order to fulfill their spiritual needs...
...great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card unsullied and unperforated...
...Belief Is Blind." So great was the influence of this example that, centuries after the downfall of Rome, Europe's national states based their welfare on comparable grounds. The belief, held by nobles and peasants alike, that kings were appointed to rule by God Himself ensured the vitality and solidarity of medieval states. To those who argue that the belief was false, as well as not conducive to liberty, Ortega calmly retorts that "all belief is blind," and that liberty is nothing more than man's belief that he possesses it. "There is, in principle, no single liberty...