Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack was three-pronged, striking at Massacre Bay, Holtz Bay and Blind Cove. As the lighters pressed on the beaches at Massacre Bay to spill their cargoes of men, tanks and artillery, there was no sign of the enemy except for sporadic machine-gun fire...
...columns reached points about three miles inland did they encounter serious resistance. On Temnac Bay, beyond Murder Point, a unit led by Captain Robert Goodfellow surprised a Jap gun position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks did him little good. U.S. officials had said they would not "send...
Discovered at the Home for Incurables in The Bronx was one of the great Victorian illustrators, 85-year-old Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said. The lace-and-velvet wrapped little hero's fame had obscured everything else the artist had done. At present, he admitted, "you can say that I'm just a little hors de combat...
Spotty and somewhat static, Three's a Family too often repeats its good jokes, half-kills their effect with bad ones. But it has its very funny moments. Really hilarious is a scene where a half-dead, three-quarters blind old baby doctor (well played by William Wadsworth) gropes his way around the apartment, diagnosing...
...captain's short commands, dropped into the speaking tube on the bridge, fall through several decks into the ears of 600 men, each with his special assignment, most of them blind to what is happening outside. To Engine-room Artificer Hen-rose, the presence of Italian dreadnoughts was merely "interesting, just as was the fact that Henry VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty...