Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Campbell of Lawton, Okla. was born blind. Three years ago, a group of local surgeons removed the 21-year-old boy's cataracts, fitted him with a pair of thick-lensed glasses, gave him sight. Joyous George Campbell, now able to read with his eyes, last fortnight told radio listeners of Kansas City's WDAF the lyrical tale of his "birthday into light...
...effect of war upon the sources of Rilke's poetry was simple enough: they were so atrophied that they did not recover full life until 1922. But he kept a virtually blind knowledge that a past had existed in which that high form of consciousness was possible; that a future must ultimately emerge in which it might live again; that during war "one's deepest obligation seemed to be to give up nothing of what mankind had previously gained and acknowledged after honest search...
Something drops from eyes long blind...
...armored scout cars (with four guns, two-way radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose Lee, Diamond Lil, Galloping Ghost, Suicide Kid in one skirmish. Along with a completely mechanized cavalry brigade, there was still horse cavalry. But even...
...self-styled "Irish-American," Ward says little that would identify him to a U. S. audience. Like his English counterpart Lord Haw-Haw, Ward preferred to remain unknown, once admitted: "America is my natal land. . . . I'm not so blind that I can't see where we may learn something from others, and I myself am one of those most in need of education. ... I had become a bored and cynical NOman...