Word: sightlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placing the blind at work alongside sighted people in factories-"making shell cases and bits and pieces of transport vehicles and aircraft." After the war, at 26, Wilson was sent on a Commonwealth tour to make a survey of people blinded during the conflict. Everywhere he encountered the sightless. But it soon became evident that malnutrition and disease, not bullets and shrapnel, had cost most of them their vision. A few years later, traveling to Nakong in northern Ghana, Wilson and his new wife Jean discovered villagers so accustomed to blindness that they found it difficult to believe the rest...