Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite the unwillingness of those who are not blind to see, the effort of the industrial non-Communist world to supply capital to the underdeveloped countries has expanded astonishingly. Britain has doubled her aid in less than three years, Germany has more than doubled hers. The United States has been giving more purely development aid, as distinct from balance-of-payment-bailout aid, than at any time before, including the era of the Marshall Plan. The Cow of public capital to the poorer part of the world is immensely greater than at any other time in history...
Silver Lining. In Gooding, Idaho, the state School for the Deaf and Blind got around to presenting Mrs. Ted Biddulph with her $5 prize 40 years after she had won a contest for naming the institution's monthly magazine, the Optimist...
Seventy-three years have passed since a young teacher in Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain...
...FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. Suddenly the earth rumbles, hinged buildings sway and shake, a house-built like a Venetian blind-crumbles while-u-wait, a tall monument topples, is stopped just short of clobbering the spectators...
...face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters his drink on his lap, butts him with her head and finally, as she brushes by a blazing dish of crepes suzette, goes up in flames...