Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employes of famed German Plane Builder Ernst Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified...
...below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
Like two vast prehistoric monsters lifting themselves out of the swamp, half-blind and savage, the two great totalitarian powers of the world now tore at each other's throats. But the time gained was no gain unless urgent use was made of it. No good use would be made of it if the U.S., pleased to see Naziism fighting Communism, relaxed its defense efforts...
...warmly unseasonal, as a boiled shirt. One of the world's half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...