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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decent enough human being. He is kind to his wife Helen (Meg Wynn-Owen), though she is an execrably sloppy homemaker. Even if he has to cook the meal, he sees to it that his three children are properly fed. With his mother (Marjorie Yates), who is blind, senile and bitter, Haider is agonizingly solicitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gently Insidious Slope to Hell | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized family power struggles in the 20th Century-Fox boardroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 25, 1982 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Besides, Scapicchio said, the quarterback is not color-blind like last year's "which helps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Football Squad Psyched For Victory in 'The Year of the Win' | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

...largest defense contractors (1981 sales: $1.95 billion); in Manhasset, N.Y. During World War II Grumman Hellcats, Wildcats and Avengers chalked up 60% of the enemy kills on the Pacific front. Grumman's company was working on the lunar excursion module when, in 1966, diabetic and almost blind, the avid ex-pilot retired as board chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 18, 1982 | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...Paul Kollsman, 82, German-born aeronautical engineer whose fertile imagination earned him patents for hundreds of inventions, most notably for the Kollsman altimeter, which revolutionized aviation in 1928 by using the barometric pressure to calculate with still unmatched accuracy the altitude of an aircraft, thereby enabling pilots to fly "blind"; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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