Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match game is no game for a blind man. Player A could have easily crushed Player B by simply taking one match from the row below [leaving 2-2-1] instead of the two matches he chose in move three. The move made was as disastrous as the system suggested by Movie Critic Bosley Crowther. He can come to my bar and play his system for drinks any time he wants to; I would not need much money...
Some girls may be in need of guidance, but it is doubtful that blind faith in impersonal rules gives them any sort of real direction. If "most girls come to Radcliffe knowing nothing about the student government rules," how does the existence of the present rules safeguard the future reputation of graduates of the college? If those who are planning to spend the next four years of their lives here are unaware of these rules how many people in the outside world can be expected to be informed about the proposed changes...
...result is that the right books are sometimes read, often for what seem to be the wrong reasons: artful publicity, blind luck, a nagging cultural conscience that periodically requires the public to atone for reading several Chapman Reports by acknowledging one To Kill a Mockingbird. Whatever the reasons, the book world almost certainly is about to see the fascinating process begin again with A Long and Happy Life, the first novel of a 29-year-old North Carolinian now living in Oxford, England: Reynolds Price...
...injustice. . . he is so unjust-whiskey-blind...
...belief in a new Eastern Front was even more ludicrous. The British wished to ship a large Japanese army into Western Siberia in order to combat imaginary German forces. Not only did they blind themselves to Japanese imperialist designs on Eastern Siberia and Manchuria but failed to see that it would take years to transport an army of any size to Omsk which, once it got there, would be a thousand miles from the nearest German army...