Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the week's activities had all the fog and confusion of a great military defeat. Important missions wound up in blind alleys or off in an entirely different direction. Important people were reported in one place, turned up in another. Amateur diplomats pinch-hit for professionals. Forgotten veterans found themselves dragged from retirement to undertake the gravest responsibilities. For almost a week almost nobody knew what in the world was going...
...Learned from blind, too-sympathetic Representative Matthew A. Dunn, of Pennsylvania, that he would not seek re-election because his health had been overtaxed by constituents he could not help to jobs, money, food...
...snowstorm swept over Finland as the week began. It grounded Russian aviation, slowed Russian mechanized attack, made the Russian infantry advance half blind. Behind the front the Russians were busy keeping their supply lines open, and this slowed down their advance. But still the Red Army came...
...should avoid it. There is no support of Russia's invasion, no condemnation of Finnish "attacks." All the emphasis in this manifesto is upon the dangers of American involvement, the very real imminence of an anti-Soviet crusade. Even though this emphasis may in this case spring from a blind attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity in the job of pulling America out of the whirlpool...
...betrayed by a Government that has led him to expect all sorts of social benefits which Government will, in time, find that it simply cannot provide, because it has neglected to make Economic America a going concern producing enough wealth annually to foot the bills. This is the blind alley into which the New Deal has led and is still leading America. And this is the basic blunder which the Republican Party must, in the interest of the social welfare of the American people, set itself boldly to correct. This is the first step towards a sound and permanently feasible...