Word: blindfolding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day at dawn, Grimau, pale but composed, was led into the courtyard of Carabanchel Prison just outside Madrid. He walked alone to the wall, refused a blindfold, shouted "Viva el Comunismo!", and then collapsed under a volley of shots fired by Spanish Moroccan troops...
...hung up and strode out, the Square de l'Archevêché started filling with French police. Just as the man said, a small delivery truck was parked in the alley, and inside it the gendarmes found a gagged, trussed, middle-aged man. Lifting the blindfold, a cop peered at the battered, bloody face and nodded: "It looks like Argoud...
...could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said: "What a cute little...
...controversy for fear of irking potential supporters. There is Nightingale, a man with a superb war record but an indifferent academic past who may have suppressed evidence out of gratitude for being made bursar. Justice, as Snow delights in proving, is a lady who wears more than one blindfold...