Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give her children a feeling of security, pretends that the family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories about artists who go blind; baby sister Dagmar pines for a menagerie; demure Aunt Trina becomes the tremulous bride of a timid undertaker's assistant...
Sober-minded Rumanians and neutral observers in Bucharest realize that the policy of the Red Army does not represent the policy of Moscow. But they have grave worries which go deeper than blind pessimism...
Woman is also the stronger sex. Though her muscular strength is only half that of a man, she is a much more efficient organism for survival. Her hormones protect her better against illness and shocks. Boys are more likely to inherit physical defects; a third more of them are blind; eight times as many are colorblind; hemophilia is exclusively a male disease. Although women have a 20% higher illness rate in almost every disease, men have a much higher death rate (an exception: 40% more women die during the course of dementia praecox...
...most sensational art losses in Europe was the disappearance of two Titians and of Breughel the Elder's The Blind Leading the Blind while in transit from the German-held Monte Cassino Abbey to the Vatican...
...fighting in this swift parade. Skirmishes, small-size battles sputtered 100 miles behind the advanced forces. The enemy did insane things in his panicky attempts to escape. He tried, with small forces, to spear through long columns. He savagely bombed Verdun after it had been taken, as if in blind spite for two historic defeats. At Mons he fought viciously to break out eastward to the Reich. But other Americans were already two days ahead on his escape route. In the Compiegne forest (where two armistices were signed) Germans hopelessly held out, were passed...