Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away...
...stems, on the one hand, from the blind radicalism of our youths. They are revolutionary idealists out to put everything right overnight. On the other hand, the main culprit is the Tudeh (Communist) Party, which, at the bidding of Moscow, drives the young generation to political sabotage. The Tudeh has more than 50 years of experience in serving the Soviet Union as a trusted fifth column. And it is doing an excellent job today...
...shame Presidents can't put their brothers in a blind trust the way they do their businesses...
...students are rarely idiosyncratic. A few know whom they want to room with, some request a new or old building, but most are not familiar enough with the Yard to ask for a particular dorm. Race is rarely a problem either. While the senior advisers can hardly be color-blind--you put a photograph on the rooming application, remember? --they only occasionally consider race as a determining factor. They never get demands to keep any particular race out of a room, though a Black applicant who hopes to live in a quad may write, "It would be nice...
...ballot for an open convention--against the advice of those who contend that "unbinding" the delegates would undo 12 years of reform efforts, against my own initial misgivings, and despite the probability that I risked attaching my self to a losing cause. What motivated me, however, was not blind loyalty to Kennedy as much as an instinctive rebelliousness against tying my own hands and wielding a club over my own head--and doing the same to all future delegates...