Word: blur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasts of radio interference from the bluffs of southern England. When British night bombers streamed home from raids, Tuba's beam was a sheltering arm reaching out from home. Within its protection, bombers were safe from Nazi fighters. Nazi radar scopes showed nothing but Tuba's enormous blur...
...still deep in a dangerous wilderness. Our pathfinder is dead. But there are others to show the way. How can we know where to follow if the tears blur our visit and pessimism beclouds our minds. There was no hope who accept the inevitability of war, who have taken "World War III" into their vocabulary, will doubt more deeply now the possibilities for peace. President Roosevelt is gone, they will wail, and Simple Uncle Sam will be outsmarted in his own San Francisco...
Toward the end of his long life, he began to go blind, and sculpture became his only means of expression. To his exhausted eyes, his models were a mere blur. To translate forms of muscles and bone, he first had to feel their original conStruction with his hands. He used calipers to measure bare knees or arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses...
...When the World-Herald's Photographer Earle L. Bunker took his famed 1943 news picture of a soldier's homecoming, Harold Cowan stood beside him, snapped the same picture. Result for Bunker: a Pulitzer prize. Result for Cowan, who had failed to focus properly: an unprintable blur...
...very different. Four years ago they had clambered out from morning to night to hear the Willkie back-platform utterances, had ridden with the candidate through streets lined from curb to storefronts with cheering spectators. (The veterans also recalled the utter confusion of the Willkie campaign, and the blur it had left in the minds of voters...