Word: groping
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...truck-borne optical shop, designed by A. Turner Wells of American Optical Co. The oversize gadget packs $20,000 worth of lenses, frames, grinders, etc., can repair the spectacles of an army of 300,000 within rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their way back to base hospitals for glasses-which often did not catch up with them in time for the next battle. War II soldiers with shattered specs are to have prescriptions filled on the battlefield, can then rush back unblinking to the fray...
...Army announced that shore lights, which have silhouetted many a ship for a submarine's kill, must be dimmed or blacked-out totally. The new Army order will hit amusement parks, boardwalk merchants, seasiders, but the real sufferers will be the real residents of coastal cities, who must grope in darkness for the duration...
...recently published "Jazz Record Book" will prove helpful to folk who are just beginning to grope their way along the paths and bypaths of jazz music and need a few signposts. But for the devotee who knows all the available records and what he likes as well, the chief interest of the book would seem to be merely the opportunity it offers for comparing his own appraisals with those of the authors. I'm not sure whether that is worth...
...longs for one thing--to strike out onto the open road, of course. A privileged bourgeois Few mount bicycles, but the average Many have naught but a narrow strip of river bank, a muddy line of turf, to satisfy their longing. Unorganized as the meekest sweated dressmakers, they grope blindly and independently, without help and mutual encouragement...
...their weakness the Scandinavian States began to grope for the strength of unity. In Helsinki Foreign Minister Väinö A. Tanner announced that even while peace negotiations had been going on, Finland had broached to Sweden and Norway the subject of a mutual defense pact. Denmark had been left out because the country was obviously indefensible...