Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blind: a court-martial fine...
...British had well observed the German losses when the Luftwaffe risked thinly guarded bombers. Their targets were, over & over, the invasion ports and communications. The British did not have long-range fighters to accompany bombers on distant daylight raids into Germany. Nor did they let their African successes blind them to the dangers of invasion. "We must all be prepared," said Winston Churchill, "to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks with constancy, forethought and practiced skill...
...which is both smaller (see map) and much farther from home ground. The British know that, in Gibraltar and Suez, much more than a trade line is at stake: without them, Britain has no hope of maintaining two fronts in a European war. Neither Italy nor Germany is blind to the two Mediterranean gates, and the British constantly expect a German campaign aimed at them...
These sightless figures were made by sightless sculptors. They were children (average age: 13) from the Oregon State School for the Blind at nearby Salem. Once a week, instructed by 28-year-old Sculptor George Justin Blais. 16 students (eight boys, eight girls) gathered at the Federal Art Center to model in clay. Working from distant memories and oral descriptions, sometimes using their schoolmates for models, the blind children tried to make up in touch what they lack in sight. Instructor Blais suggested ideas (whiskered men, cowboys, animals, etc.), criticized results as work progressed, but permitted his pupils...
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, has little love for music. He once said that, so far as music was concerned, he was "like a blind man in a museum...