Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
...housewife's problems changed. Last week, before a Republican Congress could do it, the Department of Agriculture ended sugar rationing for consumers. The housewife could tear up her tattered ration books, look her grocer in the eye, demand five, ten, or 20 lbs. of sugar. Price controls were kept. But how long she could expect to get all the sugar she wanted was something else. Unless human nature had changed since the days of the war's black markets, many still-rationed bakers, candymakers and other industrial users would soon be bidding heavily for her supplies...
...front-page editorial in L'Osservatore Romano, which rarely escapes the eye of Pope Pius XII, sounded as though it had been written by Henry Wallace instead of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. It declared that the U.S. and Soviet Russia must learn to live together in one world, must "learn that in their realm of thought all opposing ideas can exist-must learn that or repeat 'Your death is my life.' " The conflict between Russia and the West is not primarily ideological, but material, said L'Osservatore, and to be understood in terms of security...
...over the world. "My invulnerability," he claims, "has been tested with burning irons, boiling water, and stabbing through the chest. Twice I have been shot through the head [he shows visitors two scars allegedly from the shots, one in the center of the forehead, the other above his right eye] from half a yard distance...
...merchant, had sent him to study engineering in Berlin, but he liked studying photography better. He came home famous at 26, in a few years had won 150 prizes. Stieglitz was already becoming noted for his "firsts." He was the first to photograph moving objects at night. His imaginative eye made him a pioneer in picturing airplanes, snowstorms, skyscrapers, clouds. Then, flaunting his black cape in the face of the American dollar, the young romantic announced that he disliked competitions and would not make one picture for money. Stieglitz had plenty of uses for his small private income...