Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Istanbul's paved boulevards and narrow cobbled streets echo with the shrill tootle of otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee...
...jammed nearby streets and bridges-fish had actually been caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams (less than an ounce...
...students will be blind dates for the fortunate boy and girl who wind up with them. And as if this were not enough, the prize also includes all expenses paid plus tickets to tomorrow's game...
Gloria Backe, a drama student at Emerson College, is one of the blind dates to be rafiled off at the dance...
Approximately one third of the girls have already received placements in settlement houses, Community Service chairman Marilyn Covertly '52 announced yesterday. Other jobs will include tutoring, reading to the blind, typing for the Boston UNESCO branch and hospital work...