Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Potato Famine (1845-49), 1,500,000 of the Irish perished-most of them starved to death. They wandered the road and died in ditches. Beggars could get nothing when all were beggars and there was nothing worth the begging. Typhus appeared. Whole villages became rotten cemeteries. The blind windows of the huts stared from their whitewashed walls like eyes in so many skulls...
...lost, lost, do you hear? You don't hear? I'm yowling - don't you hear me? Switch the lights off! Smash the bulbs! Can you hear me now? Louder! you say? Louder! Christ, are you making sport of me? Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Must I yank my clothes off? Must I dance on my head...
...suggest that the United States should withdraw all assistance from South Vietnam is a non sequitur equating 12 million people with one man. It is like saying that they must now pay for his mistakes, mistakes which the United States government itself has helped to perpetuate by giving him blind, all-out support...
...city's news dealers figure with some precision that the absence of 5,700,000 papers a day for more than 15 weeks cost them $11 million. At least 30 blind dealers have been forced to go on relief. Other retail merchants can only guess what the strike cost. The Commerce and Industry Association puts the figure at $25 million, plus another $20 million for restaurants and theaters. Particularly hard hit were the restaurateurs, who said business was off 15%, for a $16 million loss. Department stores lost $6,500,000 in a two-month period alone. Hotels took...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...