Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind. "I am informed by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there are now no occasions on which the Salutation is officially played. The last occasion on which it was known to have been played at all was on a Gramophone at an evening reception given by the Military Secretary...
Detecting such a test is not impossible either, given the right instruments. On a roof at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, six wide-angle lenses stare day and night at the sky. Each is linked to a filter that makes it blind to all light except a special kind that comes from the fluorescence of nitrogen or oxygen. If light of this unusual sort comes down from the sky, the rooftop apparatus at Los Alamos will ring an alarm that will sound around the world. It will mean that some nation has attempted a secret bomb test in space...
...Mead was particularly concerned with the fate of many of the adolescents of poorer neighborhoods of cities. If they do not go to college and are not accepted for military service, she pointed out, we have no institutions whatever that care about them. They must take blind-alley jobs, and often delinquency is the only way they can get any attention...
Chancel Sarkar, an Indian Nieman Fellow in residence at the University, charged last night that the United States has "blind spots" in its attitude toward the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia...
Speaking before a small group of World Federalists at the Union, Sarker claimed that Americans are so interested in free enterprise that they cannot understand the present socialistic trends of these poorer nations. In addition to this "economic blind spot," Sarker noted an intellectual vacuum in the United States' inability to distinguish between Communism and Marxism...