Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement of the occasion did not blind Britain to the fact that the Prime Minister had flatly rejected the widespread demand that he separate the Defense Ministry from his office. "I am your servant," said he. "You have the right to dismiss me, if you please. What you have no right to do is to ask me to bear responsibility without powers of effective action." And that was that, muddles and mismanagements...
Chinese commanders at the Chekiang-Kiangsi front were plane-blind. They had to do reconnaissance on foot against an enemy who spotted their every move. Their men had to suffer strafing and bombing without hope of retaliation. They could not help falling back, ceding mile after mile of the railroad which would give the Japanese a route to central China...
...forces are operating around the world and the men to make them greater are going through flying and ground schools by the thousands. Glider pilots must be trained (a blind spot until recently with Army airmen), planes for fighting men must be moved, bases must be supplied in the six continents that are the Air Forces' battlefield...
Recruit. At Fort Dix, N.J., John Merighi, who had undergone 40 operations, been blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, half paralyzed, and had a headache for ten years, was found physically fit at last, admitted to the Army...
Brawl. In Prestonsburg, Ky., four men were jailed for fighting. One was blind, one on crutches, two had one leg each...