Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brothers into the dynastic pattern. Benson Ford, now 26, has just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry...
Jaedke tried to shake hands with Mitchell. The blind veteran refused. When Jaedke tried to explain that he was acting on orders, men in the crowd yelled: "We'll throw out the whole school board...
G.C.A. is a fairly complicated radar system for guiding aircraft in for blind landings. It was a wartime development of the famed M.I.T. Radiation Laboratories. Army & Navy airforces accepted it in 1943.and used it to a limited extent in the last months of the war. G.C.A.'s big advantage over other blind landing systems: all the aircraft needs in the way of equipment is a standard two-way radio. The plane's position is figured out from the ground by radar; the pilot is "talked" down by a ground operator...
...officials predict that G.C.A. will be a valuable aid to commercial and private flying-as soon as the new system is coordinated with other blind flying aids such as radio beams and airborne radar...
...same way, there is not a single one of the combatants who is spared the shameful experience of fear. The heroes quake like everybody else. . . . By its very blindness, destiny establishes a kind of justice. Blind also is she who decrees to warriors punishment in kind. He that takes the sword, will perish by the sword. The Iliad formulated the principle long before the Gospels did, and in almost the same terms...