Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...apartment of Giselda Giovannelli, 55, in the Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain) suburb of Rome. Staking out the building, they watched scores of pretty young women and well-dressed men pass in and out. The women were so attractive that, in the words of one neighbor, "they would give a blind man back his sight." As the morals cops discovered when they arrested Giselda and found her list of clients and 150 prostitutes, the girls were housewives, young mothers, students, secretaries, airline hostesses, salesgirls and models-nearly all living with their families or relatives...
...fiercely independent Basques (another 150,000 are across the border in France), unity is rare. Living in Spain's most prosperous region and enjoying a deserved reputation as the country's sharpest businessmen, the majority of Basques have never paid much heed to the E.T.A., with its blind hatred of espafiolismo (anything Spanish) and imperialismo (virtually anything American), and its rather fanciful talk of a separate Basque state...
...children), the liberated woman, with most of men's options open to her, has found work less interesting and sex less fun than she had hoped. By her very discontent with what most men find rewarding, she has proved herself different from men. But to this she is blind; in Women's Lib she has created a "culture of dissatisfaction," and she has found someone to blame...
Compensation came high. The patients were rarely without conscious and unconscious fears of death and mutilation; fantasies of going blind often kept them awake at night, and terror of possible castration haunted them. As important as their fears were the actual injuries they suffered. All of Nicholi's patients were accident-prone. Most of them had experienced at least one serious motorcycle accident. Yet none were ready or willing to give up their bikes...
...hero is a poor Mexican-American kid. He delivers newspapers to help support his parents, both of whom are blind. At age 14, he enters a schoolboy contest, and, while officials look on in disbelief, he flips a football 63 yds. He soon becomes a star high school quarterback, rushing from practice each day to work long hours as a gas-station attendant and grocery-store clerk. A scout from a big college watches the hero passing and shouts: "Lookit the ball! Lookit where the ball is! Right on the chest every time!" The hero wins a scholarship...