Word: blindfolded
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...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...
...Manhattan galleries had bulged with abstract art done in the latest, or devil-may-care style. Some weeks, four and five such shows were running at once (TIME, Feb. 20). Serious and respected practitioners had taken to dribbling paint onto their canvases from buckets; others seemed to be painting blindfold, with bent spoons. The effects were startling, and in some avant-garde circles, awe-inspiring. Here, a few critics maintained, was the art of the future...
...seized power. Another report was that Zaim was shot down at his house when he tried to hurl a hand grenade at his captors and that 18 others died with him. Whatever the truth, Zaim and his premier were dead. Damascus also heard that Zaim had refused a blindfold with the words: "I lived bravely and I want to die bravely...