Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the loss, Coach Norm Shepard had at least one good reason to keep smiling. Captain Joe O'Donnell hung on to his re-found batting eye, garnering three hits in three times at bat. The senior first baseman also came up with a near-sensational catch of a foul...
Tweedledum & Tweedledee. Given Romney's drawbacks, some moderates are shifting uneasily in their seats and looking elsewhere. Many an eye has fallen on Charles Harting Percy, 47, the junior Senator from Illinois. Percy is not trying to build a shadow opposition. He clearly aspires to higher office, but he would rather run in 1972, when he just might wind up in a Tweedledum-Tweedledee confrontation with Bobby Kennedy, who resembles him in many ways...
...arch and exiling the simple "wooden O" of Shakespeare's stage for three centuries. From Florence, he adapted stage sets that consisted of serried ranks of flats painted in perspective, with a distant vista on the backdrop, "the whole worke shooting downewards," as Jonson said, "which caught the eye afarre off with a wandring beauty...
Russell was not awed. At the age of two he had said of Robert Browning, a man who had stayed to dinner: "Why doesn't that man stop talking?" and later withstood the awful eye of Prime Minister Gladstone as the original Grand Old Man asked after dinner: "This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it to me in a claret glass?" After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration...
...proves effective and makes something lyrical of a rather commonplace romance. Dream-walking, the reader follows the narrator and his lovers through a lightly perfumed garden of erotic nuances. The encounters of Dean and Anne-Marie seem to require not reading but sensing, as if the touch of the eye were almost too much for reality. And when at last the dream breaks, it is not with a shatter but a silent splintering of crystal fragments...