Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck midst tea-and talks aimed at achieving a common ground of understanding. Such men as Powers and the agency they represent deserve our overwhelming gratitude for undertaking the perilous task of reducing the element of '"surprise." The idiots in this instance are the Pollyannas who, in blind faith, would close their minds to the possible parallel of tea and vodka...
Flagg fitted the Roaring Twenties just right, and after the Great Crash he gradually faded into comparative obscurity. Into his last years, though he was sick and nearly blind, he retained his zest for life. At 80, asked the inevitable questions put to famous octogenarians, he said that he had only one regret: "I miss seeing the new beauties...
...greatest of the few absolute monarchs left on earth has come out-in his own fashion-for democracy. Two years ago, towering, half-blind King Saud of Saudi Arabia, deep in debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues...
...whether Jesus really said this or that, or really did this or that; what counts is that through the biblical witness the early Church proclaimed its faith in the saving power of Christ. For instance: what is essential is not whether Jesus really healed the blind man, but that in this miracle the early Church believed, and proclaimed, that Jesus now heals the blind eyes of men through faith. The New Testament announces the activity of the glorified Christ in the Church, rather than simply the past deeds of Jesus on earth...
...relief for stockholders who, in such antitrust cases as the G.M.-Du Pont divorce, are forced by the courts to sell their shares. He also wants legislation to force corporations to hand over their records in civil as well as criminal cases. At present, antitrust lawyers must grope half-blind before trial, guessing what documents contain, or else stretch the law to make criminal charges. Such legislation, he argues, would enable the trustbusters to make a more rational decision on whether to take a case to court...