Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon and parachute flares (not to mention incendiary bombs and London-sized targets), blackouts are no good, anyhow. So let's substitute light-outs. When bombers come, turn on all lights. Install more lights to turn on. Make earth and sky one luminous hell for enemy pilots. Blind them with clustered searchlights. Fool them with lights around empty fields. Simply by lighting up everything, obscure all worthwhile targets...
...Maxwell Plan for the U.S.: let girls' colleges, women's clubs, Junior Leagues arrange blind dates for the boys. "It would be my idea to write the girls' telephone numbers down on slips of paper and let the boys draw them from hats. Have it done entirely with the cognizance of the parents...
...deaf, are dumb, are blind...
That is what you are trying to make us "ungullible" Americans believe-that we are blind. Alas, dear editor of a forthright but unrepresentative periodical, it is you who are blind. It is you who cannot see that the real Americans that count (not the 10% who cheer the flags waving in the newsreels) cannot in any way condone convoying ships to Britain, using our Navy for protecting somebody else's welfare, or getting us into...
...name, when viewed historically, was Progress. . . Fatalism and Progress are as closely linked as the Heavenly Twins. . . . Mind . . . must be driven from the field, first in the form of God or Teleology, then in the form of consciousness or purpose. These were called illusions, superstitions, metaphysics. "The blind play of forces known as struggle replaced purpose. The vast arena of nature was pictured as a scene of 'desperate' conflict. . . . History was a sieve that worked. Man was the residue...