Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarines harried them from the sea. U.S. planes pounded them from the heavens. During those brief periods when there was a rift in the nearly perpetual mists, U.S. and Canadian pilots swooped down on their shore installations and strafed their shipping. Flying blind, the pilots dropped destruction through the fog bank. Japanese losses during more than three months of raids, according to the U.S. Navy...
...content with disturbing the cast-iron conservative, the author proceeds to enrage the party-line communist as well. He admits quite candidly that Russia's political structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity of dogma; runs through the whole work. Cole is no meek follower of a pre-cooked theory...
This catastrophe cuts the other way, too, for it can strengthen American morale. Blind self-assurance has suffered a moral blow; the era of short-sighted faith is gone. Joe Gordon caught off second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field is as impossible as a Flying Fortress missing its mark. Those things just don't happen. But Gordon was tagged out, and Dickey did make a bad toss. If that doesn't jolt our complacency, nothing will...
...Syria, says Mannheim Kalaf, men take out a trained hajjel cock and stake it near a hunting blind. The bird will strut around challenging every hajjel within hearing distance. Soon a covey comes up, the leader ready for battle. Then the hunter blazes away at the covey with both barrels, picks up the dead birds and goes home. "They never wait to shoot again because the hajjel is smart-you can't fool him twice...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...