Word: blindfolded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swedish katt, in German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
...hear some of them tell it, Johnson is a blindfold cinch. "He doesn't give me any trouble at all," says the Los Angeles Times's gifted Paul Conrad (TIME, Jan. 31), who accentuates what he calls the President's "dish face." The Chicago Sun-Times's Bill Mauldin, who found Kennedy "inscrutable" and therefore hard to capture, ropes Johnson with ease: "He's scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist...
Still Talking. The FBI admitted that it had got some help from young Sinatra. In one of the rare moments when his blindfold was removed, Frank Jr. managed to spot the name of a restaurant on a bag of sandwiches his captors had just bought. That helped narrow the search for the house in which he had been hidden to Los Angeles' Canoga Park area. He carefully counted the aircraft that passed close overhead, helped to establish the fact that the house was in the approach path to an air terminal. It was, as it turned out, the Lockheed...
...Working in an all but echoless 10-ft. by 13-ft. room lined with sound-absorbing wedges of glass fiber, Lockheed's scientists have set up a sort of searchlight with a sound generator in its throat. The researcher sits in a chair, covers his eyes with a blindfold and presses a button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that they...
Partly to amuse the crowds and partly to prove what a great pitcher he is, Feigner does a lot of show-off stunts during every game. He pitches one inning on his knees, another while standing at second base, a third while wearing a blindfold. Sometimes he throws the ball between his legs or behind his back. When the ball is hit back toward the mound, he snares it and, instead of throwing to first, pretends to examine the seams; then, just in time, Feigner fires the ball behind his back and throws the runner...