Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship flew into snow, into one of the sudden storms which buffet the Southwest in winter. Lieut. Murray Hanson, in command, flew low to look for water, saw none where he could land. He flew high, at 17,000 feet was still in the storm and snow. He flew blind; the snow had blotted out everything, and he had only his instruments to guide him. Wind mocked and rocked the great plane, smashed the cabin's windows. Spare parts spewed like hail through the cabin. A dreadful paralysis seized the plane; after each lurch, each drop in the wind...
...human ear can hear), gauges the depth by the time it takes the waves to bounce back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from which echoes bounce back. Thus they can fly through intricate mazes in the dark...
...Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto...
...went to Germantown Academy. The discovery, in his teens, that he was totally color-blind dashed his ambitions to go to West Point. For a time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...
...Evansville, Ind., a blind man holding a gun with a friend looking over his shoulder, won a turkey shoot...