Word: sightlessness
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...solid mayoral chair sat Oberbürgermeister Alfred Freiberg, his sightless eyes fixed on the carved ceiling. In armchairs beside him, waxen-faced in death, sat his matronly wife and bespectacled daughter. In an adjoining room Stadtkämmerer (City Treasurer) Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter also sat in poisoned death. The rigid bodies of four Volkstürmers sprawled in other offices. Two, it was plain, had sat across a table, sipping brandy until one had drunk enough to pick up a machine pistol, shoot his comrade and then himself...
...drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...
...BLIND MAN'S BUFF-Baynard Kendrick-Little, Brown ($2). A series of fatal falls that follow the "suicide" leap of a blind New York banker leads sightless Detective Duncan Maclain into the most perilous case of his career. A unique murder method, a well hidden criminal and intelligent writing give the tale stellar honors...
Ever since those early days Perkins has been preparing its sightless graduates to "take a contributory place in life," but now, in a society at war, their place is more than ever distinguished and distinctive. Up to the outbreak of war, these men and women, both partially and totally blind, had filled positions ranging from poultry farmers to teachers and public servants. Now they have adapted their special abilities to war work. Many are serving as airplane spotters, their highly-developed hearing enabling them to locate a plane long before their seeing companions are aware of it. Others are employed...
...into service. So were Bock, Rundstedt and desert-fighter Erwin Rommel, called home from Africa to confer on the synchronization of Germany's Russian and Near Eastern drives. While the new battles were planned, the old battle went on. And all along the front, in windrows, lay the sightless dead...