Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publication of these Castlerossisms seemed to fill British aviators with blind rage. Shouted Capt. B. A. Davey, one-time War pilot : "If war were declared one afternoon one-third of London's population would be wiped out by morning. It would be an all-night affair. Lord Castlerosse is talking through...
This fabulous performance prompted even his bitter enemy, Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, to recite the story of how "Ed" Kelly, son of Fireman "Steve" Kelly, was born blind; how he gained his sight at the age of 18 months when his mother washed his eyes with her own milk; how he became a newsboy at 9, an office boy at 12, a day laborer at 17. The New York Times, a thousand miles away, was prompted to print such a eulogy as it seldom accords even a great statesman. And Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, was prompted...
...well, even so; a philosopher, he said, is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there...
Only the day before, the News declared that undergraduates can claim a right to know how the A.A. is being run. "We would demonstrate," declared the editorial, "that it is to the best interests of the A.A. to make public their figures. For they cannot be blind to the fact that at present the goodwill of the student body is not theirs...
...down into my seat I went. Centrifugal force, like some huge invisible monster, pushed my head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that my backbone bent and I groaned with the force of it. it drained the blood from my head and started to blind me. I watched the accelerometer through a deepening haze. . . . I was blind as a bat. I was dizzy as a coot. I looked out at my wings on both sides. I couldn't see them. I couldn't see anything. ... I could feel my guts being sucked down...