Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...
...There are some who believe that if Nehru had not played Hamlet to Gandhi's ghost, a compromise might have been effected before the latest call for civil disobedience. But past attempts by Nehru to enlist the services of the United Nations for a solution have ended in blind alleys...
Eyes for the Blind. They were still only a handful-with a thousand missions to perform. They accomplished what they did by courage, by surprise, and through the coaching of the smart and experienced General Chennault. They had only a few more planes than the old Flying Tigers, who rarely had more than 50 ships fit to fly. They still could not challenge the Jap's mastery of the air. But at last China's armies had eyes to see with; they no longer moved like blind worms mercilessly pecked at by birds overhead...
Says the Rev. Bonaventure Fitzgerald of the medal: "In these days of mental fog we need a spiritual beam to guide our blind flying, and certainly St. Joseph is this." Not only Roman Catholics use the medal. Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York commends its "true and human appeal," and Actress Gertrude Lawrence has distributed hundreds of them...
...very human daughter of a frigid and aristocratic British family. Her enlistment in the WAAF and her subsequent love for Clive are convincing where it would be easiest to become theatrical. Thomas Mitchell as the faithful Monty shares with Miss Fontaine the acting honors of the film. In his blind faith for England and his earthy view of life, he is as true to the spirit of the book as Tyrone Power is false...