Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halt & the Blind. Joe did not quite realize it at first, but there were many other lonely, unhappy or troubled people who also wanted to see a vision. People came to talk to him, and to see the place on the hill. They brought flowers and votive candles, and ailing children and crippled sisters, and the wept-over photographs of sons killed in the war. They watched, hopefully and awestruck, while Joe kept his nightly vigil. The crowd grew; people came from as far away as Cleveland; last week, on the 17th night, 30,000 jammed into the dirty...
...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
...blind may soon have an electrical gadget to help them get around without bumping into obstacles. The basic idea, now being worked on by the Army Signal Corps, is a small box shooting out a narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind man can feel his way. When the beam hits a lamppost, a fence or any such obstacle, its light reflects back to a lens and is focused on a photoelectric cell. A gentle buzz in an earphone warns him that the obstacle is near. The blind man can tell its direction...
...present, the "optical cane" is heavy (9 lbs.) and cannot "see" narrow obstacles such as hanging wires. The Signal Corps intends to iron out all such comparatively minor faults before offering its invention to the blind...