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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who publicly attacks its actions; the argument runs that the Court has merely found in this instance that the questions asked Wilkinson were legitimate and pertinent to its Atlanta investigations, bearing no relations to the man's hostility towards the committee. Reasonable as the apologists sound, they are blind to what Douglas and Black see: that a majority of the Supreme Court has now decided that the only real limitation on the House committee's power to persecute its critics is the committee's own questionable sense of fair play and restraint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wilkinson Decision | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...picked up its radio transmissions. The Russians told their frequency (922.8 megacycles), but did not tell Western radio telescopes where to point. Since the transmitter operates only when triggered from the earth, would-be trackers not in the know have little chance of receiving its signals by blind scanning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Nice, Precise Operation | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...that the fate of the Prudential depended on a road down the B & A, and that the Callahan-Volpe deal ensured a toll road, he agreed to compromise. In return for certain changes in the route from Weston to a point in Watertown near the Perkins School for the Blind, he would withdraw his objections and certain litigation proceedings that he had initiated with the Interstate Commerce Commission. He maintained that there was no reason why a new route from Perkins to 128 could not be considered, a route that would not interfere with the Prudential and might reduce...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: The Public Weal | 2/23/1961 | See Source »

...across the U.S., signed them up to membership contracts of six months (typical East Coast price: $185) to "permanent" (seven years: $360) on the pay-as-you-perspire plan. Last week in Chicago, Tanny's muscular sell was sporting several Charley horses. In Cook County circuit court a blind man asked for an injunction to release him from a $385 Tanny membership contract, claiming he went to Tanny's for a job, was told by a Tanny salesman that he had to sign a free membership application first. In suburban La Grange, a Tanny salesman was waiting trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tannyed & Fit | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...kind of mind that files what other people forget. If one wants to know it, Skyline is the place to find out that a buck-and-wing dancer named Charles B. Lawler composed and sold The Sidewalks of New York for "a few dollars" and afterward went blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Along the Rue Regret | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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