Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick mist made visibility poor. As he marched up the lower half of the Champs Elysees, preceded by groups representing former prisoners of war and deportees, Communist youth organizations and the Franc-tireurs et Partisans (Communist-controlled guerrillas who had fought the Nazis), Boisvin could only just see the nose and steel helmet of Georges Clemenceau, peeping through the fog. Crowds lined the street...
...able to see again because he got new corneas for his eyes through the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946 et ante). Last week the eye bank's third annual report told about his case. Other recent cases: a railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband...
More was at stake than election polls, which are only a small part of the business of Gallup, Roper et al. The whole $25 million-a-year industry of polling, which employs 10,000 people and serves up "scientific" answers on buying habits, audience reactions, and all manner of likes & dislikes for Hollywood, businessmen, educators, magazines, etc., was under suspicion...
...Largo. A G.I. v. old-style gangsters; Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, et al. in a John Huston adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...