Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ministers to $100,000-a-month payments from drug traffickers. But any hope Pindling had that the inquiry would eliminate the rumors quickly backfired. At first testimony centered on lower-echelon civil servants: customs officials and police officers who were accused of accepting bribes for turning a blind eye to trafficking on the outer islands. But then witnesses began taking pot shots at the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, government ministers and finally Pindling himself...
Three-and-a-half minutes into the final stanza, while skating out a Deb Taft tripping call, Carroll dropped a blind pass at the Harvard blue line. Forechecking Tiger Suzanne McGilvray scooped up the rolling biscuit, charged in and beat Tate for a Princeton score and what would prove to be the game...
...statistics: "Figures don't deny equally of opportunity, they deny equal results." But Chairman Pendleton seems unwilling to accept connections between 200 years of systematic discrimination and institutionalized racism and current inequities between white and Black Americans Advocates of affirmative action do not deny the desirability of a "color-blind," "gender-neutral" society, but, rather, realistically accept the limitations of our present society...
...then there's 1956, and Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, effectively cutting Israel off from a major supply route. Taking this to be an act of war, Israel crossed the Sinai to free the canal (with American, French, and British help). Clearly, this, too, is blind, naked aggression. Why Should the Israelis be allowed to trade with other countries, anyway...
...second commission appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21 assassination of former Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino was running up one blind alley after another. The five-member board had heard 43 witnesses, most of them soldiers assigned to protect Marcos' chief political rival on his ill-fated return to the Philippines from exile in the U.S. Their stories were monotonously similar: at the moment of the slaying, each had been "searching the perimeter" of the security cordon for troublemakers. On hearing the fatal gunshot, each had turned back toward the plane from which Aquino had disembarked...