Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...
...morning last week, balding, bespectacled Bryant Bowden, editor of the weekly Okeechobee (Fla.) News, sauntered into the Okeechobee courthouse and stopped to eye the bulletin board in the main hall. Among the marriage-license applications, which, by Florida law, must be publicly posted for three days before a ceremony, he saw something which made him goggle. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, of New York-the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons and one of the most eligible bachelors in the world-had stated his intention of marrying one Eva Sears, 31, also of New York...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
...trimmings: insomnia, a nice apartment on the correct street, seven suits, and the urge to leave his wife." His boss believed that "books are merchandise, like soap or toothpaste or fountain pens." Dick Eliot felt cheap and dishonest, but he was also a social climber with his eye on a social-register widow. So he promoted trash and got himself a nice raise...
...other things happened in the Cage Saturday. The Varsity, with an eye on the Yale meet next Monday, had a soft time with B.U. and Northeastern, while the Freshmen simultaneously knocked off Andover...