Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Apparently disregarding a warning block signal, apparently blind to the glare of No. lys's approaching headlight, Motorman Jacob Kiefer took No. 192 down the section of double track and roared on into the gantlet. Markin's whistle was a shrill and hopeless warning of the rending crash of steel on steel as the two trains collided...
...right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said Felicitas : "It is el destino. And when that is against you, you can cry yourself blind. It is not easy for a pregnant woman to find a job. I only hope it is not a girl this time. Day and night I pray the Lord to give me a second...
...blind couple in Copenhagen stopped to ask directions of the driver of a parked car, were immediately whisked off to their destination by Denmark's 50-year-old King Frederik...
...Warner, 44, is a onetime British schoolmaster whose personal bogeyman has by now become that of most men of good will: the cynical assumption of the dictators that mankind fears nothing so much as freedom and longs for nothing so much as to be asked for blind political obedience. Men of Stones is Warner's fifth novel of worried warning...
...members like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Benchley have tutored enterprising young Bostonians in Piano, Calculus, and the 440-yard freestyle swim. They have read texts to the blind and collected blood for the injured. They have swapped tickets to football games and sold tickets to plays; they have promoted rides to Vassar. They have done the jobs that should have been done and which nobody else would...