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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Court. The two also appeared together in public-at a wedding and a film premiere-and managed to seem at ease, both with themselves and their adoring subjects. Lady Diana's youthful radiance stole the show last week at the Queen's garden party. Allowing an elderly blind guest to feel her engagement ring, she joked: "I'd better not lose this before Wednesday or they won't know who I am." Her outright sensual allure has smartened up her fiance considerably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...does get his girl. But it's quite clear what pubescent sex will do to those who practice it. They will be caught in house fires, or confined to psychiatric institutions. "Do that and you'll go soft. Do that and you'll burn in hell." Or go blind. Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that statutory rape is dangerous to your health. Join the un-hooked generation...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Coitus Calvin-esque | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

...demonstrated instead their courage and willingness to make this enormous, ultimate sacrifice--will probably return to their old methods, the methods of Collins and De Valera, soon. A campaign to raise consciousness, a campaign that has already cost six lives, seems to have failed, for the world is too blind, or too lazy, to see the pain of Northern Ireland...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Few Who Cared | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

...reluctant to wage war if their sons will be dying. But there's another side of this--the memory of General Hershey's declaration that the best use of the draft was for "indoctrination" of young men before liberalizing forces like college could corrupt them. Similar worries--and not blind pacifism--motivate many on the left who oppose the draft or the shoring up of our military...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Price of Defense | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

...from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and others he served along the way." Kraft gave the Secretary the benefit of the doubt, praising him as "the only highly placed person in the Reagan Administration with a feel for global strategy." Nonetheless, concluded Kraft, "the U.S. is now heading, almost blind, into what could be a very dangerous storm with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Globetrotters with No Compass? | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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