Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Headier Harvests. The greening of America, homestyle, started in earnest early last spring when produce prices went as high as an elephant's eye. In protest, city dwellers and exurbanites alike turned lawns into miniature back forties, filled patios with planters (often made with old washtubs or auto tires), and deluged seed companies with orders. Manufacturers of fertilizer and tools chalked up record sales, and many are predicting even headier harvests in 1975. So many green-thumbers took to canning and freezing their surplus vegetables last year that jars and lids were all but impossible to find...
Evans took to photography as something that he could make respectable. Scorning both the "artistic" and "commercial" examples of Stieglitz and Steichen. Evans forged a new photographic tradition based on typical scenes shot from eye level, usually from a middle distance, and in bright daylight. "Most photographers were very uneasy in my youth and they all were uncomfortable about whether what they were doing was art or not. I never was bothered about that, luckily--mencumbered by that nonsense." Evans always had a firm conviction in "straight" photography. His is "cool, precise as a police report, emotionally aloof," according...
...Enrique Gimenez-Jimeno, the only eye-witness to the legal abortion, testified that the fetus was dead when it was removed...
...become stained before healthy cells do. Sternheimer's test must still be tried on a large number of patients and evaluated before its effectiveness can be established. But it has already shown its potential for detecting cancers early. When a patient at Michael Reese for treatment of an eye ailment recently underwent a battery of lab tests, Sternheimer's test suggested that he had cancer of the bladder. Surgery confirmed the cancer, and it was removed before it had spread to other organs...
...aging, sentimental officer who operates the harrow tells the explorer, only the lawbreaker himself can be said to have no trouble with the script--and this even if, as often happens, he is a person of little education. "It is not easy to decipher the writing with the eye," the officer explains, patiently. "But our man deciphers it with his wounds...