Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well get used to the idea of more & more alcoholics. Now that people are living longer, the statistical curve of alcoholism is going on up with the curves of cancer and heart disease. This is the warning of an eye-opening book, The Problem Drinker (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), published this week...
...Oldsters, whose eye muscles are less flexible, may need special eyeglasses for "middle-distance" viewing...
...make panoramic sweeps of Washington's long vistas, and then move in on the columned portico of the Capitol for dramatic close-ups of top-hatted diplomats and politicians, skull-capped Supreme Court Justices, Arabs in flowing kaffiyas, papal knights in plumed cocked hats. The camera eye glanced up at the lazy wandering of a Navy blimp, and around at the wide lawn jammed with humanity. Then it came back to the inaugural stand as the natty, smiling little man, in whose honor the multitude was assembled, stepped onto the rostrum...
Coffee & Flags. But with the cinder out of its eye, the camera picked up the impressive overhead flight of B-36 bombers, Flying Boxcars, jet-propelled fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...
Televiewers had better watch out for eyestrain and eye fatigue, the New York State Optometric Association warned last week. To "enhance visual comfort," the association offered some suggestions...