Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naked eye like glimpses of the sun, doing no permanent damage; but the AEC warns that it will be extremely dangerous to look at the lofty explosions with binoculars or telescopes. Concentrated on the eye's retina, the light will be strong enough to cook a fair-sized blind spot...
...Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then quietly returned to Europe...
...both Africa and Middle America, WHO doctors are trying to wipe out tiny gnats that leave the victims of their bites infested with worms that attack the eyes, causing "river blindness." In some villages, all adults are blind. The doctors are using drugs to kill the worms, and insecticides in the rivers (where the flies' eggs hatch) to break the blindness cycle...
...creature more unfortunate, more wretched than he, because he was once with God, but now he has left Him, denied Him and he roams the air inconsolable." Brother Mouse. Kazantzakis' prose moves with the stateliness of a funeral dirge as Francis, bleeding from the Stigmata and nearly blind, moves to his death with childlike dignity. When a mouse gnaws at his toes one night, Francis whispers softly, "as though he had been speaking to a child, 'Brother Mouse, I am suffering! For the love of God, go away! I am suffering...
...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...