Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is only one thing that they, the veterans of the last war, and the Nazi youth of today have in common: the sense of "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles. . . ." and the blind obedience to the state--which Mr. Kruse calls supreme devotion...
...sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed. I didn't hear him. . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. He was screaming that he was going blind. . . . Gus, the quartermaster, was with us. He had a piece of steel in his head and he said: 'I won't last long.' He didn...
When the Nazi Army retreated through another village, it forced all 80 inhabitants to go with it. One of the villagers told how he and his nine children, his wife, his blind father and his mother had marched in the wake of the soldiers. "The grandmother was slow moving and the Germans came up and beat her. . . . One by one his own children and four other children died of the cold. . . . The second day his boy of three years perished. . . . That afternoon . . . the Germans began to shoot the stragglers. . . . His wife and one daughter were shot down and the others...
Physical qualifications, Professor Seavey admitted, may be a serious handicap to some, for the requirements for commissions are higher than those for enlistment. "Some men who have weak eyes or who are color-blind," he said, "may find that while they are quite acceptable as a private, they are not qualified to be an officer...
...this problem lies in allowing him to receive at least partial credit for work done at an approved college near his home. But the University's present ruling which denies credit for courses taken at any summer school but Harvard's makes this way out nothing more than a blind alley...