Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...
...fish which cannot be caught alive with nets because they live only at ocean-bottom pressures. He also hopes that his camera will clear up an old baffler: why do fish from the presumably dark ocean bottom have well developed eyes, while those at slightly higher levels seem nearly blind? Ewing's guess: there are large amounts of luminescent organisms on the ocean floor...
Pale, intent men lay on white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...
...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...
...ground level, but in getting over mountains ducks have been known to reach 7,500 ft. above sea level, cranes and condors, 20,000 ft. Highest recorded bird altitude (reached by a flock of geese photographed in India): 29,000 ft. Ornithologists believe that birds may be helped in blind flying by a brain mechanism sensitive to changes in altitude...