Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day some U.S. serviceman, coming out of battle or out of anesthesia, realizes that he is blind, that ahead of him stretches a lifetime of darkness. To the parents of one such blinded soldier Brigadier General Paul R. Hawley, chief U.S. Army surgeon for the European Theater, recently wrote a letter (published in the New York Herald Tribune) of classic directness...
...recognize and understand these fears and overcome them. That is done by training your son to learn to be blind. . . . The Government sees to it that he will get the best training available to teach him to read, to type, to walk around . . . and, particularly, to become experienced in one or more of the many ways a blind person can earn a living...
...This training . . . can be best done in a sort of school or college where others . . . are learning to be blind. . . . Haphazard and casual training in the home often does more harm than good...
...first, the House seemed willing to go along with Vivian. Then three representatives banded together to fight the amendment: one who is blind, a second whose brother is a Jap prisoner, a third who is a Negro. Tall, gangly Dean Paul Roberts of Denver's St. John's Cathedral soberly warned a packed house and gallery: "Fascism starts in an innocent way, with public opinion mobilized against a small group unable to fight back...
...Rome." Then a Roman Catholic peer, Viscount FitzAlan, added: "I have the greatest possible affection for the present holder of the high office of Pope and I should deprecate strongly any thing that might put him to any personal inconvenience. At the same time we can not be blind to the fact that whatever may happen to the existing holder of the Holy See we always get another, and that is not a thing to be ignored...