Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, is the really puzzling thing about the Flying Thudwunk-where does it get the noodles? Up until the time that it pauses and reshapes itself no noodles are visible at all. In fact, they aren't ever visible until they hit the Thudwunk-gazer in the eye. At that juncture the gazer loses sight of the Thudwunk...
...convention votes would go to Dewey. Two delegates drove 300 miles from Dallas to report that they were making progress against Bob Taft's forces in Texas. An Arkansas delegation arrived, conferred, departed with the announcement: "It could be arranged for Dewey to carry the delegation." With an eye out for future favors they added: "But it would take some maneuvering...
...only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
...illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...
Their "bird's-eye view of the world," as the Houston Post's Oveta Gulp Hobby termed it, made varying impressions on the globe-girdlers. Thomas H. Beck, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., had left prophesying war in three years; he returned "more convinced than ever that it is true." Scripps-Howard's dapper Roy Wilson Howard saw "palms up everywhere around the world," found everyone fearful of "the menace of Communism...