Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...blind, headlong years before 1938, Streit wrote his ideas into a book. Before he was through, he had worked out in careful detail the apparatus of a federal government of democracies (see chart). The executive power under the Streit plan would be held by a board of three men chosen by popular vote and two men chosen by a Senate and a House of Deputies. The Deputies would be elected by popular vote; each country would elect two Senators; countries of over 25 million would be allowed more...
...left behind. The Red loudspeakers went into action, blaring that the heartless Western powers were breaking an agreement and were cruelly refusing admission to the refugees. The Communists produced some special cases they had been saving: a paralyzed woman who had been hidden in a press radio truck, a blind woman, a father who had searched all over
...impressive clippings to show. For six years he had been voted Britain's No. 1 jazz pianist. Like another successful British-born pianist, Alec Templeton, George had been sightless from birth. But at six he had begun music lessons at London's Linden Lodge School for the Blind, kept at the classics until he was 17, when he decided he could make his living at jazz...
...started out touring with a blind men's band. The leader used a specially designed baton that made an audible swoosh so the musicians could follow his beat. At one time or another George had played with most of Britain's top dance bands. Among his fans was the late Fats Waller, who assured Shearing, "You'll kill them in America...
...Communism spoke of peace. The friends-French, British, Canadian and U.S. emissaries of an organization calling itself the Permanent Committee of Partisans of Peace-were the first foreigners ever to appear before the Supreme Soviet. Their act was part of the current Russian peace offensive, a smokescreen designed to blind the West...