Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panic of fear and repression that followed the attempted assassination, Adolf Hitler turned, as though by blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian...
...better will think that abolishing the corporate tax will let corporations get away with murder at the people's expense. Some politicians who do know better will fear that people are too ignorant and prejudiced to understand that this is not true. And Treasury experts seem generally blind to the economic consequences of the present chaotic tax system...
...note, however, was injected by one unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...
...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...
...from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...