Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one that is lower than it was 11 years ago. 3.9 billion dollars out of a 9 billion dollar budget went for welfare then, much of it in work programs to combat unemployment; the 1951 allotment is 2.7 billion dollars, mostly in aid to the aged, blind, and to dependent children...
...half-century at the blind end of a cobbled alley in Montmartre, le Théâtre du Grand Guignol has become a synonym for blood-drenched horror on the stage. Until the war came along, its 293 seats were filled nightly with a faithful, shuddering clientele. Its finest hour came one night when a woman in the audience swooned at the sight of two harridans gouging out a girl's eyes in their madhouse cell; the management called for the house doctor, but he had passed...
...year ago when he read a letter in the London News Chronicle by a father who reported that Mother Goose was playing hob with the children. His own five-year-old daughter, he reported indignantly, had come home in tears after hearing about Mother Goose's three blind mice who had run afoul of the farmer's wife, had their tails cut off by a carving knife. Geoffrey Hall decided forthwith to turn out some nicer rhymes...
...external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader, requiring a soldierly bodyguard who in blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ of Emmaus, the Jesus...
...Blind Man. It wasn't. By midyear, production had dropped 17% but it also seemed, at last, to have found a solid footing. And the "recession," it seemed, had at least in part been caused by a great miscalculation. U.S. businessmen, roaring mad at those who had underestimated the ability of U.S. production to lick inflation, had made a similar mistake themselves. They had underestimated the appetite of U.S. citizens to consume. At the year's start, the supply of goods on hand and in the pipelines seemed enormous-$58.5 billion worth, enough to last...