Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blind Cast...
...best wrestlers Yale has ever had is a junior who is almost stone blind. Last week 165-lb. Bob Russell stalked his Columbia opponent by the sound of his footsteps, pinned him in 5 min., 42 sec. with a reverse body lock and nelson. It was Russell's first intercollegiate match...
...splinter from a banged croquet mallet pierced Bob Russell's left eye when he was five, and sympathetic blindness struck his right one. He studied from first grade through high school at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, learned Braille and how to use a typewriter. He was a mainstay of the Institute wrestling team that consistently licked Columbia's freshmen and jayvees. In 1941 and 1942, Russell won the middleweight championships at the Westchester (N.Y.) County tournaments...
...take it." I looked around. The men were not very happy, and were wetting their lips a bit. Well, when we got back in harbor, we felt pretty good because we had sunk five ships of 20,000 total tonnage. We had a hell of a blind and plenty of hooch. After that, I was ready for the next patrol...
...blow was dealt to the company itself. Besides the maximum fine, Judge John P. Hartigan delivered a stinging rebuke that would cost any company far more in good will than a mere $10,000. The defendants he had just sent to jail were motivated, he said, by "blind loyalty to a corporation that didn't seem to appreciate the loyalty it owed to the U.S. . . . Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. [was the] chief culprit...