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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Anderson: I think both Mr. Reagan's and Mr. Carter's Chair's answers speak for themselves. They are typical of the blind words of optimism that both of my opponents have been spewing forth for months. But the voters this year want more than promises from representatives of the major parties. They want action and, as the candidate of the National Unity Party...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Missing Persons | 9/20/1980 | See Source »

...Waits is standing by the door of a rented, run-down hall eliciting toothy smiles from short white girls with big tits. It's New Year's Eve at "Mambo Beat '80," a bizarre multi-media "happening" in the heart of Hollywood. Various comedy acts (including a pair of blind Lebanese tourists) and an awful cover band known as Sal Mimeo & the Duplicators keep the three hundred partygoers hopping until midnight. Then veteran R&B performer Roy Brown takes the stage with his group of crusty black musicians. Waits moves from the entrance way to the dance floor. This...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...Technology, Clarence Robinson Jr. and Philip Klass. They pointed out that at Sary-Shagan the Soviets are apparently using Pavlovski generators, highly advanced devices that convert the energy released by controlled blasts of explosives directly into bursts of electricity. The Soviets probably already have an operational HEL that could "blind" U.S. reconnaissance spacecraft orbiting at an altitude of 240 km (150 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Technology to Transform War | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...realistic, even credible novel he has written. Andy McGee and Charlie come across as tender and courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Moppet | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...gone so far out on a limb in its quest for radical gestures that it will have difficulty regaining its poise. I am ready to help and I have proved it. Other politicians, I hope, will follow suit and give up the prevalent practice of scoring cheap points by blind, strident radicalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Ghotbzadeh | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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