Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of Ohio is truly in labor, it would appear she is about to beget a mouse, in keeping with her tradition of bringing forth inconsequential Presidents all the way from the inept Grant to the incredible Harding. If the Republicans are so blind as to think the country desires a return to Harding normalcy, and are making ready to nominate another nonentity, I can only conclude that the fourth term will best help solve our postwar problems...
Only by radio control could such coordination of the blind underwater vessels be achieved. Nerve center of this system was a great camouflaged central control somewhere in occupied Europe, probably in France. The Nazis boasted that Allied bombers frequently flew over this headquarters without recognizing it. Into and out of it flowed messages from U-boats and air reconnaissance in every theater of German naval operations. Routes of convoys were plotted there, location of submarine packs picked out and corresponding orders given for attack. Radio in code and clear was flashed out constantly: on Christmas Eve last year Doenitz himself...
...capable of declaring his love for his young fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen O'Hara) and of standing openly with his friends against the Nazi conquerors. But the betrayal and killing of people he loves goads Lory into taking arms against the sea of troubles. He commits a blind, almost reflex act of near murder, which is forestalled only by the suicide of his intended victim. On trial for the murder he did not commit, the morally outraged schoolmaster speaks out at length against the Nazis, and further proceeds in open court to reveal his love for Louise Martin...
Rommel, who is never blind, sensed the move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...
...years ago Armstrong staggered nearly blind out of the ring. Tough little Fritzie Zivic had given him a cruel beating, cut him to pieces around the eyes...