Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot in the Dark. In Atlanta, blind Walter McDonald went on a turkey shoot, was first to bag a bird...
...with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened at the one-man, all-out ignorance and mental arrogance of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . The evidence builds up to the simple brutal fact that F.D.R., the Big Brain, through blind stupidity . . . was directly and personally responsible for the blood and disaster...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were well known to German Kathe Kollwitz; she had sketched them from life for more than 50 years. When Death finally turned on her in Germany's Harz Mountains last September, she was 78, worn out, and nearly blind. But her prints and drawings still stood as a terrible and pitiful description of human suffering. In the '205 they had seemed, to U.S. eyes, grotesquely exaggerated; the pictures of Belsen now made them seem like plain, eyewitness reporting...
Some 10,000 to 15,000 of the nation's 250,000 blind might see again, if their foggy corneas could be replaced by clear ones. To get clear corneas, the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration was .formed last spring (TIME, April 23) and now has 50 member hospitals in nine states...
Radar countermeasures have two general purposes: one is to blind the enemy's radar, or trick it into reporting misleading information; the other is to get information from his radar and use it, as radar itself is used, to locate the enemy, with the result that the enemy's radar boomerangs by revealing his position...