Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country and its people than the G. O. P. candidate, however glamorous. The least you can do is give the two candidates an even break. Then when you go to the polls in November you can vote, by golly, as you please. But save us from more of that blind-adoration stuff in your magazine...
This should be neither bar nor safeguard to most young men: conscripts can be blind in one eye, partially deaf in both ears, minus one big toe or two little ones, and still be technically eligible...
...late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911. But Joseph Pulitzer could see through skulduggery, no matter how dark its hue, could sight a dirty deal a mile away. He made the Post-Dispatch one of the most valiant crusaders of an era rich in righteous journalism...
...international order gave way to universal insanity, even the laws of nature got mixed up. In Newcastle, 700 blind people offered to act as guides during total blackouts...
...world-wide brotherhood with the background of a common race and creed, consecrated to the service of peace: Britain enriching the rest out of her culture and traditions. . . . I saw in the Empire a means of giving to the congested masses at home open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved a new philosophy...