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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a traditional prescription for its recapture, which consists in swinging the club to a waltz tune.... So away I went to a secret valley, a very muddy one in the season of rain, where no human eye could see my contortion nor human ear hearken to my carolings, and 'Gad, there I was,' as Jos Sedley once observed, 'singing away like--a robin...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

After picking up some bruises, jail time and a criminal record during the late '60s war protests, I cite Matthew 7:3: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" At least the Russians aren't told they have the right of protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1977 | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...thumbnail, but its outsize heart is beating strongly. Under its thin, transparent outer tissue, the disproportionately large brain is clearly visible, and the frail, curving backbone appears to end in a tadpole-like tail. Arms have already formed, along with a thin network of blood vessels, a darkly pigmented eye, and features that will soon be transformed into mouth, lips and ears. Miniature webbed fingers can be seen forming within a paddle-shaped hand. Only 40 days after its conception, this tiny, throbbing bundle of life is recognizable as a human embryo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viewing Life Before Birth | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...keep John Connally down. Big John was there in the danger zone of each of the big political storms of the past decade but in each he managed to steer clear of the storm's eye and escape unscathed. After what might have been a tarnishing association with the Johnson administration, he managed to change horses, and is today one of the nation's most prominent and promising Republicans...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Big John | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...these two categories of conservation are never far removed from one another. Beale explained that even though a painting may sometimes look bad but remain structurally sound, varnish eventually cracks paint and causes structural damage, in addition to offending the aesthete's eye...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Obscured By The Fogg | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

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