Word: purblindly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event perfectly illustrates the point. Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests against possible Russian expansion. Two of England's leading generals, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, were quarrelsome brothers-in-law. A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted...
...punishingly long and concentrated. Osborne skillfully manages to arrest his hero just on the brink of the absurd-even if his man does persist in viewing others just a bit less flatteringly than they view him. "The whole bloody island is blocked," says the solicitor, "with those flatulent, purblind mating weasels...
...Committee for a SANE Policy, attempting to impress its on the United States Government, this misfortune must have seem ominous. A great many people inside the Arena, were prone to any efforts at disarmament with conciliations to the Soviet Union; and a purblind witch-hunter, at uncovering symbols as was as likely to head the same into an off-key version of the Spangled Banner as he would continuing partnership with the Amendment...