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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your factual reporting of the business slump in San Diego is typically denied by the city fathers, whose blind optimism creates the poor business climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Gasping the acid, insufficient air, For this we labored through a rainy night Tired and frozen, up each cinder stair, Without the proper formula for prayer; But blind, not simply mothlike, toward no light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Winners | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

...Goodman, reporting on his Russian jazz tour; a trip to the bedside of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 79, who is recovering from a stroke; a White House meeting with a North Carolina admirer, aged 8, who is suffering from a heart deformity; and an enjoyable interlude with 24 blind teen-agers from California, who peppered him with questions. "Are you going to run for office again?" "I'm thinking about it.'' "Do you think your children will follow in your footsteps?" "I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Summer Interlude | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...have long made desperate attempts to keep cool. In the summer of A.D. 221, Roman Emperor Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Blow, Cool Air | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...band finds food, but things begin to go strangely wrong. Their best hunter does not return from a foray. The two children are stolen. Finally, the Neanderthals discover their enemies. They are a tall, erect race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: False Dawn | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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