Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...enjoyed two kinds of training the most; firearms and "defensive tactics." I learned how to take a gun away from a man and to tear off his trigger finger into the bargain. I learned to kill a man with no more than a pencil; to maim; to blind...
...John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most...
...lead proved short-lived, however, as the New Yorkers responded with a fluke goal at 3:49. Cheevers survived a close call when Bobby Nystrom's 65-foot slapshot grazed the right post, but had no such luck when Garry Howatt's blind centering pass from behind the net bounded off McNab's skates and into the cage...
While these booboos were occurring, moreover, the Globe was taking a beating over its treatment of Mike Manoogian, a blind news dealer who has been hawking papers with oldtime fervor ("Big story! Big story!") since 1936. In December Manoogian was cut off by the Globe, which said he had swiped some copies from a newspaper vending machine. But when one of the man's longtime customers wrote a protesting letter to the publisher, she got back a haughty reply accusing Manoogian of "thievery." Copies of the letter given to local newscasters turned TV and radio on to the case...
Fitzgerald's screenplay draws directly on O'Connor's novella, using much of her original dialogue, which is both realistically harsh and softly poetic. And all of the book's strange characters are faithfully recreated: Asa Hawks, the failed preacher disguised as a blind man who begs and steals in the name of Jesus; Sabbath Hawks, his sluttish daughter who falls for Haze; Enoch Emery, the idiot teenage zookeeper who finds a bizarre solution to Haze's search for a new Jesus; Hoover Shoats, the mercenary street preacher who seizes on Haze's Church Without Christ as an exciting...