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Word: blindingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Demon and the Muse | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...back swayed, neck stiff, knees bent, arms and hands contorted downwards, the dance is shot through with images of deformity and entrapment. Cunningham hunches down on the floor, all crippled angles, his head and tongue jerking like a lizard's. His hands tremble fitfully, one foot gropes outward in blind patterns, or--suddenly alert in awful stillness--he glances warily offstage. Movements sputter for a moment and die out helplessly; the fear is palpable, paralyzing. At the dance's end, when Cunningham shuffles offstage in the same pose as his entrance, nothing has changed or been resolved...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Eloquence of Gesture | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...countries. Transporting arms and men from Eastern Europe to Ethiopia formerly presented only minor problems, since they were flown from their staging area in Libya over an unsuspecting Sudan. Until they were expelled in May, Russian advisers in Khartoum had tampered with the Sudanese radar network to create a blind spot in its coverage,'in effect creating a "corridor" through which Soviet planes flew undetected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow's Helping Hands | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...computer's benign influence extends to the handicapped. The tremendously arduous process of turning print into Braille for the blind has become a relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Valentine, too much sex can make you blind...Let's just fool around 'til we need glasses...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

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