Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted by that poor little rich man who was in some ways blind, deaf and dumb." The old Romeo's reply to sweet Juliette: a $20,000 damage suit for making him look "ridiculous...
...most serious military effect probably concerns radar-particularly the powerful radars that are being developed to spot ballistic missiles plunging down from space. A high-altitude nuclear explosion, the AEC explains, acts like an enormous, radar-blinding smoke screen. Radar beams that search the sky for invading warheads may be either absorbed or totally reflected by bomb-ionized air. An enemy hoping to hit a target defended by radar-guided anti-missile missiles might well explode a warhead several hundred miles up to create an electronic smoke screen that would blind defensive radars to other warheads racing toward their targets...
...Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...
Innumerable seductions and suicides later, Sewell burns to death, and good old Thebes (Mich.) is saved. A blind newspaper editor pronounces an un-Grecian moral: "With mortals, as with cards, play the percentages; you may draw successfully to a straight of vice, but more frequently a full house of virtue will take...