Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, written when Chessman was 18, noted that his "boastfulness is a compensation for underlying feelings of insecurity and inadequacy." Chessman was brought up in the Glendale section of Los Angeles. His father was a bitter, disappointed ineffectual who drifted from one job to another (carpenter, poultry butcher, Venetian-blind installer, yardman), and the precarious family income was battered by heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling...
...good faith than taste; her death seems to have liberated Regler from bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...
...other." Danger No. 2 arises from the prospect that as time goes by more and more nations will acquire nuclear weapons. "The more nations that have the power to trigger off a nuclear war, the greater the chance that some nation might use this power in haste or blind folly ... To guard against this danger, the testing of nuclear weapons and eventually the production of fissionable materials for weapons purposes must be prohibited under effective inspection...
Braille Reports. The first annual report for blind stockholders on records and in Braille was put out by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for an estimated 3,600 A.T.& T. stock owners...
...anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer space and another of man's eternal second chances...