Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could, to be sure, be dramatic, as on the occasion when a window blind was slamming at Radcliffe. He marched across the room, raised the window, and threw the blind to the ground a story below, remarking "There's more than one way to stop a blind when it slams." But he was not so full of pent-up fury as the quivering young women supposed...
Everything had gone wrong. Vag wished she had been a cousin, or a blind date, or at least not so beautiful and delightful about it all. He even got her back to Briggs three minutes late, which might have been worth it if they had done anything tremendously spectacular...
...bomb went through the roof and hit Mrs. Papafio (of Indian descent) as the family sat in their tiny suburban villa. When Big Papafio went to the rescue, his wife was stiff dead. And what was worse, some gas went into Big Papafio's eyes and made him blind...
...Young Bob coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...
Gabriel Farrell, Watertown, Mass., Lecturer on the Education of the Blind...