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Word: blindness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Blind . . . Pigheaded." In that manner, all week, the nation's Senators went about the nation's business-solemnly reminding one another of their mutual responsibilities, sniffing the political winds, getting very tired of one another, sometimes letting their tempers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: This Side of the Grave | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Republican line was shaping up: 1) the Administration had coddled Communists; 2) the Administration wasn't prepared for Korea even after spending all those $56 billion on the armed forces; 3) the Administration had followed a blind and disastrous policy in the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upsets & Switches | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Herbert Hewlett, a 39-year-old laborer of Hull, England, had served almost three years of a five-year sentence for stealing 20 bicycles; then he suddenly went blind. Under Britain's "prerogative of mercy," the rest of his sentence was remitted. The governor of Lincoln Prison gave Howlett a white cane and advised him to take training for the blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bicycle Thief | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Blind Spot. In Jersey City, Fortuneteller Rachel Lilly called up the police, asked them to help her find her car and her crystal ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Recently Becky began to rub her eyes alot. The Haires took her first to a pediatrician, then to an eye specialist, who called in eight others. Their verdict: Becky's ears, not her eyes, had followed her mother's movements. Becky had been born blind, apparently with cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Choice for Becky | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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