Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass photograph of the starving Italian children, to whom I have turned over the entire huge bulk of my Italian royalties. Or on a group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year. . . . In 1946, I gave nearly $20,000 to American charities, all practically without any publicity whatsoever...
...down his heavy automatic rifle and put six shots into York and his wife. Two bullets dropped nine-year-old John York as he scrambled from the car and five more hit his 67-year-old grandmother in the back as she got out and started to escape. In blind terror, 13-year-old Ann, the only York in the car still alive, pelted up the lane with lead cracking around her. Hit in the thigh, she managed to keep going until she reached a farmhouse where she sobbed out her story, and named the rifleman...
...Garssons had put more than $50,000 into Cumberland for lumber they never received. One former Garsson employee testified that he had been ordered to juggle the books to show orders and receipts for nonexistent lumber. The Government insisted that Cumberland was simply a blind to shield the fat bribes Andy May extracted from the Garssons...
...some ways a brilliant mind, with some appalling blind spots. The Colonel is well-read in history, at least in the names and dates of battles, but has learned from it only his single-track, narrow-gauge approach to world affairs. The people he despises most are amateur military strategists, and none more than that fellow amateur, Franklin Roosevelt...
...also comes to doubt that the artist is really blind. His effort to find out, in a walk along the lip of a cliff, is a hair-raising piece of melodrama. Quieter, but no less exciting, are the nasty undertows of purely psychological uneasiness, as the members of this perverse triangle take each other's measure...