Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit. Daredevil flyer, Jimmy Doolittle has a long list of aviation "firsts." He was first to span the continent in a single day, first Army pilot to do the hazardous outside loop, first to try an experimental kind of blind flight. Jimmy Doolittle is in command of Eisenhower's air force...
...agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed Mrs. De King, 35, and clubbed her husband into unconsciousness. . . . The raiders pointed to a half-gallon of wine found on the premises as justification." Another told of holiday whoopee-makers going blind, dying after drinking wood alcohol...
...duck hunter, primping for his blind date this fall, looked forward to a heavenly sight. Thanks to Ducks Unlimited and other saviors of Canada's vast nesting grounds, this year's migrants had been expected to number about 100,000,000-the thickest flight in 15 years...
...save thousands of lives yearly, which in itself should be enough to its name. Even with the great medical advance of the past hundred years still this State has an infant death rate of 40 per 1000 births. This figure and countless inherited diseases could be cut down if blind politicians would reject their medieval views and let medical progress benefit all of the people. Innocent people do not make a strong democracy, nor does democracy grow in the dark...
Discovering to his embarrassment that all the graders expected him to stay something, he ventured, "Where is the blind one?" To the surprised questions of the girls, he explained that "someone told me that one of you went blind and kept on grading exam papers for four hours...