Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sifting and evaluating all the material will be an eye-wrenching task. Says Frances O'Brien, administrative assistant to Peter Rodino, Judiciary Committee chairman: "We have to take everything that has been given to us, break it down into areas, decide what we have, what it means, whether more is needed, and how we should go about getting any more." One area of documentation is off limits to the committee. Though Doar has had two amiable meetings with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he has not been able to obtain any information. All pertinent White House material received by Jaworski...
...Welles and the "rather shy and un-happy" Marlon Brando, who in 1946 played Marchbanks to her own favorite part, the witty, warm, older-woman heroine of Shaw's Candida. Not about to be upstaged at home, Kit jauntily raised ANTA'S gold medal to her eye like a monocle while a telegram from the only previous winners of the award was read to "We're so proud," cabled Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, "to be at last in your Company...
Less than 24 hours after the operation, both patient and doctor were doing fine. Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 59, underwent cataract surgery on his right eye and then, together with his ophthalmologist, amateur saxophone player Dr. Charles Kelman he played a gig in Harlem. Besides blowing sax, Dr. Kelman is writing the score for a projected Broadway show and trying for a breakthrough pop song. So far he is ahead in the eye department: he developed a pioneering procedure for cataract surgery (applicable only in special cases) that shortens recovery time from seven weeks to a minimum of four hours...
...celestial object that had been widely billed as "the comet of the century" had indeed turned out to be a disappointing dud. Looking with unaided eye into the southwest sky after sunset, most observers in well-lighted, smoggy metropolitan areas could find no trace of Kohoutek. Even with binoculars, they saw only a faint smudge near the bright planets Venus and Jupiter. From their orbital vantage, the Skylab astronauts found that the comet had suddenly become bewilderingly faint; only a few days before, they had enthusiastically described it as glowing "yellow and orange, just like a flame...
...been quite a few years now since I first learned to love good old-fashioned country ham, cooked with grits and red-eye gravy. But it's only been a little while that I could even tolerate the wailing poignant sticky strains of country music...