Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of Americans would have been maimed or killed in battle and the remainder enslaved or gassed, if they had permitted such blind prejudice against "others" to sway their judgment to the point of refusing those "others" (from Britain, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe and elsewhere) the right to volunteer to save the lives of these Americans and of those dear to them-in the big fight against the Axis...
...knowing there was a whopping Treasury surplus, had hoped for more, but active resentment was confined to the professional opposition. Most Canadians knew that Abbott's budget, though tough to take, was good for Canada. Few would agree with the Ottawa cynic who cracked: "You have to be blind, over 65 or dead to get anything...
...pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
...counting radio out, most think it will survive, if only as an auxiliary arm of television. Best guess: radio will be absorbed into the teleset. And there will still be programs for the 9,300,000 automobile radios, for housewives who are too busy to look, and for the blind...
...patients could testify in person. A middle-aged man told the courtroom how his wife had died after treatment by the optimistic old brothers. A young widow from Erie, Pa. told how her husband had used four jugs of the diabetes medicine; he then got ulcerous sores, went blind, and died...