Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confrontation was created by people who charged police." There was no such charge by demonstrators during the most notorious confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At other times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind the man standing next to them by hurling oven cleaner? Though oven cleaner may have been used as a weapon by a few protesters, it was not the standard equipment that Daley and others implied. By the police department's own count, only five of 198 injuries to police...
...canvas entitled The Fish Merchant and Fish. Neither merchant nor fish were in evidence-it was hardly an example of having "knuckled under" to Communist social realism. We drank tea and listened to Tallin playing a lute (made with his own hands) and singing old Russian ballads learned from blind minstrels, with whom he traveled from village to village begging alms when he was a young boy. I was told that he ran away from home at the age of nine and lived free as the wind ever after...
...life's great desires." Said the Washington Post of the clubs: "They have injured themselves, their fellow members, the decent neighbors and their country. That's quite a package of damage to be achieved by one piece of petty parochialism, narrow racism, middle-class snobbery and blind prejudice...
When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter in to the police, because "I was scared." All too fre quently, blind rage is the response. One San Francisco father beat his boy for 45 minutes after finding marijuana in the youth's bureau; another, a heavy-drinking millionaire, disinherited his boy. "I'd kill the sonofabitch if I ever found out he was smoking pot," says a Manhattan father. Says...