Word: blindfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller, had authorized the unlawful surveillance activities; and the Criminal Division in the department elected to proceed with the prosecution of the three principals with the full approval of President Carter. Yet another relic from the Watergate era had bitten the dust, offering some cause for reassurance that the blindfold of Justice was back in place--at least at first glance...
...jurors evidently agreed. William Link, 30, an employee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., said they believed Bronfman had faked his imprisonment. The rope used to bind him was flimsy, for one thing, and the blindfold placed on him looked like a flip visor. According to Link, the jurors also thought Bronfman was lying when he taped an emotional plea to his father, then a moment later changed his voice and said briskly, "Do it again." On the stand, Bronfman was unconvincing. He appeared to choke up when he looked at the jury, said Link, and compose himself when he turned...
...claims she did not enjoy sex with Hays. She now says: "If I could have, I would have put on a blindfold, worn earplugs and taken a shot of Novocain...
...Fort implied that Patty's treatment was a good deal less harsh than she or the defense psychiatrists described it. He stated, for example, that the closet where she spent her first four weeks was equipped with a foam mattress, a pillow and a reading light. After her blindfold was removed, she read S.L.A. tracts and Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, a required text for Third World revolutionaries...
...Wound. The annual proliferation of decorations has led critics to observe that the government selects winners with the same skill as the blindfold player in a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. Periodic attempts to cut back on medal giving, however, have usually failed. True, the Revolution halted the French kings' practice of showering crosses, ribbons, stars, neckpieces, plaques and palms on court favorites, but not for long. Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just made the bizarre proposal that decorations awarded to those wounded in the revolutionary struggle be affixed to the exact area of the wound...