Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were rich. They went out to Locke-Ober's, but Shapiro, to steel himself for the ordeal, had drunk too much bourbon. By the time the steak tartare had arrived he was green; rapturously ill, he tried to run--outside, bathroom, anywhere. Her father would fix him with an eye regarded in some New York financial circles as imperious, but betrayed only the stupidity of six generations of inbreeding, and would ask him a question and he would try to answer and sit back down. Finally, the elder DuPont asked him the clincher--What will you do with your life...
...Mather House that ended the discussion. Lou had fought in World War II, and even if his side lost he still had a good eye for bunkers and pillboxes. The concrete flanks of firebase Mather looked painfully familiar, especially for the kind of money he was shelling out for the kid. Not a bell tower...
Carlo had engaged one of the truckers in a Consumer Report analysis of C.B. sets, but Mrs. Lou noticed his eye drifting over the magazine rack. She nudged Lou, who turned on the owner with a new line...
...Pewter Pot soon began to depress Beth and she started to join extra-curricular activities. All of them. She pretended she was only looking for friends, not a lover and sometimes she meant it. But beneath her resolve to be self-directed and independent she always had an eye peeled for an eligible male. As she confided in a friend, "I'm not exactly looking for one but if a nice one jumped in my lap I wouldn't exactly push...
...fond of procreating with comely peasant girls while his wife takes on the palace guard. Among Arruza's numerous offspring is Miguel Ángel Matalax Yanama, a 28-year-old wanderer who has studied law at Harvard and social science in Germany. He has lost an eye as a U.N. observer in the Gaza strip and he has been a teacher and a Red Cross worker in Biafra. But Matalax has eaten the bitter bread of illegitimacy and plans to over throw his dictator-father...