Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knowing People. The Germans knew what was ahead. A man would have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to know. Except for a few blissful days of bad weather, the air bombardment went on without letup. Deliberate, impersonal BBC announcers even gave statistics: two tons of Allied demolition bombs were smashing at Europe every minute of the day & night...
Owing to war time emergencies, the physician is the only M.D. in town and though 70 years old, blind, half deaf and ignorant of all medical knowledge of the last half century, he manages to deliver all the babies successfully. Typical of his brand of medicine is his reply to an anxious patient who calls him up and asks. "Junior just throw up, doctor. What should I do?" "Clean it up," snaps the tottering doctor as he pursues his work...
...elevator signal buzzed in International House, the massive 13-story lodging place built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for foreign students. The elevator man had a blind right eye, but as he stopped the car he turned to look at his lone passenger. She was Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes...
There was a time when a patient whose popeyes (exophthalmia) were getting worse (e.g., certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...
...great affairs with absolute finality. . . ." Since writing this, says Fisher, there are "very few answers [Pegler] has not attempted to supply offhand. He is currently concerned with postwar planning (he's agin it) and with interpreting the nation's attitude toward the future (he sees it as blind nationalism). He believes labor and Communism to be virtually interchangeable terms . . .is anti-Roosevelt by profession . . . thinks little of either Dewey or Willkie...