Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. If you fail-please mark my words-you pass into slavery and all America passes into slavery with you."-Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from...
Died. Colonel William C. Ocker, 66, "father of blind flying"; in Washington. He early noted that pilots grew accustomed to flying by "feel" and then tended to ignore their instruments. His research led the Army to require blind-flying training for every pilot. He invented the widely used "black box" for ground training-students sat on a swivel chair, peered inside a box at an instrument panel, guided their "plane" without seeing their surroundings...
...farmers are not solely to blame. Members of the House and Senate know well that the lobby of the agricultural aristocrats is small, but they have nevertheless followed the parity line with the blind allegiance of a Storm Trooper to Mein Kampf. Congress has turned over the job of drafting policy to a group of professional lobbyists. If the bill passes the Senate as speedily as it went through the House of Representatives, the President can only veto it and issue the necessary decrees to control prices under his powers as Commander in Chief...
Beyond the purple morning shadows on the mountains the sun already beat so hard on the flinty sand and the gaping arroyos that newsmen and soldiers fresh from Fort Knox already felt blind and seared. But the men in the machines were veterans; they had met the sun and were equal...
Daring. Bomber pilots say that the most annoying gremlins are those which like to play seesaw on the automatic horizon or use the ship's compass for a merry-go-round while the pilots are trying to fly blind. The most dangerous gremlins are those which delight in covering bombers' wings with ice. These are a middle-aged breed of gremlin, called spandules, who never bother with planes flying lower than 10,000 feet...