Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history (third grade, Norse; fourth, Greek, etc.), study its history, literature, painting, music, sculpture. But above all, they learn how all these subjects are "related." The Taylor theory: "To study 12th Century sculpture without realizing the tremendous force of the religious movements of the Middle Ages would be as blind as to study a maple leaf with no realization . . . of how it grew...
...pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock have been unable to point out a specific case of lowered tariffs or reciprocal agreements adversely affecting American industry. They continue to cry wolf, blind to the lesson they should have learned 15 years ago--that wolves feed on high tariffs and not on low ones...
...Southerners . . . [are not] in the same category as those blind followers of the doctrine of white supremacy who persist in placing men like Theodore Bilbo and the late Gene Talmadge in positions of honor, whence they may spread their evil appeals to the ignorant...
...Iona Community is not afraid to experiment with its logical conclusions. Last summer it held a week-long conference on divine healing (addressed by blind Godfrey Mowatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative on the Council of Healing, and said to be gifted with the power to cure by laying on of hands). And recently lona has organized a Christian Workers League, whose members seek to work on the corporate bodies of trade unions, capturing control of them with the same infiltration tactics used by the Communists...
While Gandhi preached love and nonviolence to the Bengalis, an old jailbird named Vallabhbhai Patel, who calls himself "a blind follower of Gandhiji" and whom the British Raj had imprisoned eight of the past 16 years, had 40 Indian Communists, whom he hates, clapped into jail...