Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goes the Money. Prices at the 16-day fair were higher than ever: Cokes, 13? hot dogs and hamburgers, 25?; coffee, 10?; rides, 25?; ice cream sticks, 25?. But prosperous Texans seldom batted an eye. Hundreds "took in everything," spent as much as $50 a couple...
...attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
...regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting an eye...
Tranquil with an If. President Painter didn't fire Dobie, but he did bat an eye. After his first year in office, he reported that everything was now tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
...truck to Mt. Palomar, 130 miles away. There the glass will be covered with a thin film of shiny aluminum and set in the telescope. Some night in the spring or summer of 1948 it will stare up at the sky as man's farthest-seeing eye...