Word: blindfold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must have the feel of your boat. The boat can tell you a lot of things, but you have to respond to the feel. I say. go out with a friend and put on a blindfold or close your eyes. That's a good way to learn the feel...
...death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting, the body is turned...
...like a civilized man on the brink of going native. Instead of preparing Lalla for the reality of his life, he is becoming enamored of the unreality of hers. He can congratulate himself that "she had picked him blindfold, out of a hundred: rejected husband, melancholy salesman of flour and pigmeal, he was changed into a prince every Saturday afternoon...
...penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around it three tons of builders' steel scaffolding. When all was secure, he injected a curare antidote. The paralysis disappeared, but the giraffe found itself in a cage and at the doctor's mercy. These precautions were necessary, Dr. Goetz explains solemnly, because giraffes...
...ebullient owner of the Cards involved more than baseball. McCulloch spent many hours at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, absorbing facts about beer. One afternoon, after all the facts were absorbed. Frank and Contributing Editor George Daniels, who wrote the cover story, submitted to Brewmaster Frank Schwaiger's blindfold test, comparing Budweiser and Michelob with other brands of beer. "This beer-tasting," McCulloch concluded, "is a fine tradition...