Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There he saw the stars and exchanged stares with the moon, but he could see very little of the land, which was just as well because he was gazing at the shore of an island that, three hundred years ago, had struck slaves blind the moment they...
...animals they fear; that good guys sometimes get drunk and shoot other good guys in a rage, or blow their own heads off (by design or accident) or hit their own children by mistake. Most murders are done on impulse, and handguns are perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires a signal through the nerves to the trigger finger - BLAM! Guns do not require much work. You do not have to get your hands bloody, as you would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill...
...Star Wars and Grease profits a few years ago, either have folded or are struggling to survive. The U.S. Congress disallowed most no-risk tax shelters, which once offered the hope of a quick buck for producers and a long write-off for investors, and 19 states have outlawed blind bidding, which allowed studios to extract money commitments from theater owners for an unseen product. Now cable TV and cassettes are starting to offer the movies serious competition for the entertainment dollar. The gloomiest forecast is of a nation of stay-at-homes getting all their fun from the giant...
...cold and windy as the place itself." When he hears Herodotus lecture at the Odeon, Cyrus decides that the Greek historian has concocted a thoroughly slanted account of the so-called Persian Wars and that it is up to him to set the record straight. Because he has gone blind, Cyrus enlists his nephew Democritus as amanuensis. "So make yourself comfortable," he tells the young man. "I have a long memory, and I shall indulge...
After the bomb test at the Trinity site in Almagordo, nothing or no one was the same: it wasn't just the response of one woman who, miles away, couldn't understand why her blind sister could see the brilliant flash: more importantly, it was the reaction of scientists like Oppenheimer, who realized that they had seen the most powerful force in the universe demonstrated before their unbelieving eyes. As Robert Serber, a scientist who worked on the project, said. "It was some kind of beauty." But as the lesson of Hiroshima--where, as brother Frank Oppenheimer recalled with obvious...