Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeming life of Rome in the Claudian Age so vividly alive that the books became bestsellers. In last year's not-so-successful Wife to Mr. Milton, his blend of imagination and scholarship projected his readers into 17th-Century England and the bedchamber temper tantrums of the great blind poet-politician...
...pleased the professor to hear students in the corridors outside shouting boisterous greetings as they recognized old friends back for another term. Professor Parenton himself did not recognize a single face-he could not see any. An exploding ammunition dump in far off New Caledonia had left him blind...
...excesses when we are confronted with the essentially honest French mores. There is a great surge of opinion in the Army which is growing daily and is terribly dangerous, a hatred and contempt for our Allies, the French ('they're dirty; they'd rob ya blind') and an admiration of the Germans, coming from the superficial similarities between life in two modern industrial countries where work is a virtue and pleasure a vice. Frankly I'm very much worried about it; its potential danger in the postwar world cannot be underestimated...
...month rent, the Electronic Trap Co. of Rochester, N. Y. offers a highly scientific rat eradicator. Taking advantage of the fact that rats fear blind alleys and new paths, the electronic rat trap is a floorless, open-ended box placed over a favorite rat run. The rat, seeing nothing suspicious, thinks he can scoot straight through. But the instant he is inside the trap - bang! An electronic eye slams down two doors, one in front and one behind...
...Boston, a blind war veteran, guided by a paralyzed companion, drove a rented automobile three miles through heavy traffic before crashing into a tree...