Word: eye
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They continued to give their schools the Surrattsville name, and they kept a close eye on the Surratt house. In 1965 its last private owner donated it to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A group of local citizens raised money for its restoration, and last week it was formally dedicated as a historical monument. Boy Scouts directed traffic while an honor guard from nearby Andrews Air Force Base presented colors. Said Restoration Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gwynn Jr. to the 700 onlookers, including 30-odd Surratt descendants who attended the affair: "To remove this blot, this blemish...
Humphrey urged that any people who give "any indication that they might commit an act of personal injury" to a President should be followed "like a shadow-like a private eye...
...think he had lost, and he looked it. But in the twelfth round, the champion tapped a last reservoir of energy, and the third battle was on. As Ali landed a succession of bloodying punches to the head, the younger challenger faded. Frazier's face, especially his eyes, visibly swelled. Ali continued to press, knocking Frazier's mouthpiece out and following with a stiffening right. In the 14th, Ali hit Frazier at will. Frazier's left eye was almost sealed. That did it; Manager Futch stopped the slaughter...
...Winston's mama, Jennie Jerome, she was that peculiarly erotic species, an American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain...
...been the "Harvard Annex" since the late 1880s. The disregard, disrespect, and offhandedness which anyone living at Radcliffe experiences each day is enough to make any rational individual very irrational very quickly. The prevailing attitude about Radcliffe and its residents may not at first be apparent to the untrained eye or ear, but the tone of it has already become unbearable in the opening weeks of this semester...