Word: sightlessness
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...100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent-movie westerns...
...bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous night stalker, a flightless sightless bat, with ears as sensitive as a NORAD radar antenna, that carries its clawlike hind legs over its shoulders as it roams around on its forelegs screeching, in search of prey...
...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...
...Upon the sightless couriers...
Things first began going wrong for Ed when he was five and his right eye hemorrhaged. Then at age nine, his left retina became detached, leaving him sightless. Ed says that he doesn't remember anything about losing sight in his right eye, except the operation. But when he couldn't play baseball anymore, the full three years I wondered 'Why the hell am I in this situation,'" Ed says. And he mentions his grandmother, a member of the Holiness Church in Wyoming, Del., where Ed has lived all his life, who told him that if he prayed hard enough...