Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps a measure of the seriousness with which Udall was treated that R.W. Apple. 'The New York Times' astute political writer, observed Udall's session with local students with a watchful eye...
Tenuously allied with Hays in a drive for power is California's equally ambitious and canny Phillip Burton, 48, the newly elected chairman of the Democratic caucus. While each keeps a wary eye on the other, both are maneuvering to succeed Carl Albert as Speaker of the House. Albert last week lent new urgency to this jockeying by refusing to confirm-or deny-a public report that he intends to retire when his current term ends. Blocking the path of both Hays and Burton, however, is Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the House majority leader...
...improve. The purpose of sports reporting should not only be to attract athletic stars, sell tickets, and keep alumni interested, as Dave Matthews suggested. Furthermore, women's teams and men's teams receiving less coverage are not taken less seriously by the players than teams more in the public eye. The aim of the Radcliffe field hockey team is not to have fun. No competent sports reporter would believe this. Female athletes are as serious and dedicated as their male counterparts. The long hours, the sweat, the pain and the mental concentration that women's intercollegiate athletics now demand...
Traditional novelists toss pebbles into domestic pools and then take notes. The postwar fashion has been to track these projectiles directly into the muck below, but there is another, older way. As masters like Henry James and Virginia Woolf knew, the ripples on the surface can bedevil the eye and engage the mind. Before My Time brushes up this earlier technique. It transforms a brief disturbance of hearth and home into an age of anxiety...
...year old wolf was tame, but it scared shit out of the Secret Service agents assigned to keep an eye on the demonstrator. Harris, wearing a placard that said "wolves are better wild than worn," told interested passersby that the wolf is an endangered species. The economic incentive for killing wolves (a single pelt brings about $200 from clothing manufacturers) must be ended, he said...