Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Difference v. Blindness. "The nearer we come to vanquishing our enemies, the more we inevitably become conscious of differences among the victors. We must not let these differences divide us and blind us to our more important common and continuing interests...
...said she, drawing down the blind. . . . "Open that old shirt of yours...
...made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
...carefree vacationer, he spent his mornings playing better-than-duffer's golf at Georgia's famed luxurious Sea Island. He whipped long drives across the watery 13th, cracked out iron shots with careful deliberation. As he had said he would be, Tom Dewey was "deaf, dumb and blind" to politics...
...departure of Big Ed was by no means catastrophic, but its echo would penetrate to the moss-covered oaks and tropical palms of Sea Island. Tom Dewey, staying on at Sea Island for another ten days, could be blind and dumb to politics, but he could no longer be deaf...