Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind to the reality of world conditions that we cannot perceive that none of these lands is yet ready for independence ? The great successes of the Western powers have not resulted from the present policies of defeatism and surrender being urged on us by such journals as yours. Let us hope the conscience of Metropolitan France and the West listens to the voice in the wilderness that is crying out in Algeria...
Monotonously, the statistics of horror continued to mount. During January in Algeria, 555 people were killed, 990 seriously wounded. The meticulous compilation of figures tended to hide the terrifying reality-a child riddled with bullets, a young girl repeatedly stabbed in breast and back, a blind news dealer beaten to death by men he could not see. These bloodlettings take place not in the primitive backcountry of the Congo but in highly developed cities; the killing is not done by savages but by men who, in one way or another, purport to be part of French civilization. The murder...
...Central Intelligence Agency has been widely publicized since it served as a scapegoat for the Cuban Invasion. Last April, everybody in Washington was excusing himself on the grounds of blind gullibility, and vowing to clean up the mess which Allen Dulles had made over the years. Now, still calling for an Intelligence Agency that will be less self-willed and less inclined toward asserting foreign policy on behalf of the nation, the guiltless have approved a powerful, opinionated and unqualified man to lead...
Like most airline passengers, Los Angeles Lawyer Charles E. Wills shuffled patiently through the electronic bureaucracy of reservations, confirmations and reconfirmations with the blind faith that when the right time came, he would be aboard the right plane. But on Oct. 11, 1959, when he showed up at St. Louis' airport an hour before he was scheduled to take off for Los Angeles on TWA's Flight 77, he was told that his seat in the tourist-class section of the plane had been given to a ticket-holding fellow traveler-from first class...
...resembled Lenin's!), starred at writers' congresses, where he helped the party put the kibosh on Trotskyites, and called himself a "loyal man of the left." But he traveled no farther than Spain. No ideologue, he never accepted the Marxist doublethink that enabled so many others to blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party, but was soon disillusioned and paid for it by being denounced as the possessor...