Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would do the most good. In "a tremendous number of instances," signatures in the registration book differed from signatures in the 1938 and 1939 poll books. One woman whose signature appeared in the poll books swore to Mr. Burton she had not voted "in many years." She was blind...
...this age-youth division on affairs economic has been a disagreement over the issue of war and peace. Anything but eager to duplicate the 1917 performance, generally held--as last June's Commencement Orator phrased it--to "stand condemned by its record," youth has pointed to post-war economic blind-alleys as the direct outgrowth and aftermath of the war itself...
From the opening bell, young Zivic went after Armstrong's weak spots: his eyes and mouth, puckered with old scar tissue. By the tenth round, the champ was a bleeding blind man. While he stumbled and groped, mumbling "If I could only see-" Zivic slashed him with savage rights and lefts. Through five of the most brutal rounds ever seen in the Garden, Armstrong took his bloody punishment. In the 15th, more from a shove than a wallop, he toppled to the floor-just saved from a knockout by the final bell...
...former government instructor here and one-time assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON, Eliot has endorsed most of the New Deal policies. "The issue in this district is an old one of progressivism against reactions," he said in an interview yesterday, when he characterized his opponent as "almost a blind 'no' man" for voting against most all of the liberal legislation passed in recent years...
...decked with damsels; band after band after band; stunts, leaping cars, clowns, flags, hundreds of booted, satin-clad drum majorettes, strutting, cartwheeling, trucking to the swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives! We have no wives with us!'' The American Legion was on parade...