Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Target. The ugliness of the act aside, the killer of Medgar Evers could only have hurt his own blind cause. The national reaction was instantaneous. President Kennedy called it "appalling." In Mississippi, even segregationist Governor Ross Barnett denounced this "apparently dastardly act." Rewards totaling $21,000 were posted for information leading to the arrest of the killer...
...Blind, Deaf Blockhead. Fyodor has no politics (except to prefer a regime where "there is no equality and no authorities either"); he does not hanker for the Return; he does not brood on the past or hope for the future. His fellow emigres regard him as "a useless handicraftsman," a "trickster" and an "arabesquer," and he in turn regards the typical Russian emigre intellectual as "blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot...
...Sansom short story is a piece of artful thimblerigging. There are eerily improbable confrontations: the lonely writer who discovers the blonde girl of his dreams on a Norwegian waterfront and stares deep into her dreaming eyes only to discover that she is blind and that the eyes are shiny glass. The cheerful salesman who meets an escaped lion on the deserted pathway of a zoo and is at first terrified and then forever mortified that the lion turns disdainfully away, rejecting him as a meal...
...Hungry & Blind. When the air tube was taken out and Roger was fed by mouth, he seemed to be on the mend...
...meaningless shrieks. He threshed around so violently that for two weeks he had to be sedated. For a month, it seemed that Roger's brain had been all but destroyed. He developed an enormous appetite and opened his mouth for food whenever his lips were touched. He went blind, and fell on his face against the bedpost when...