Word: eye
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...riot act. He had lots of staff but no peers. That was fixed by rotating the designated adult on the plane. "You need someone who can focus his attention on what he ought to be saying," said a Republican Senator's aide, "and can look him in the eye when he falls flat and say, 'Well, that didn't work...
...hotel for the night, they awoke the next morning to discover that a freak snowstorm had blown in overnight. Jim wanted to stay in, and in no time, Susan noticed, was scanning the real estate ads in the local paper. Suddenly he looked up with a gleam in his eye. "Look at this," he told Susan. "Twelve hundred acres in Marion County for less than $100 an acre." It struck him as an amazingly good deal. "Is there any land in America that could be worth less than $100 an acre?" They bought the land within a week, sight unseen...
...dire health at the time, and he told Rudy he was holding on to see him make the Olympic team. Says Galindo: "A half-hour after I told him [Kristi and I] had broken up, I saw him sitting there with a tear running down from his eye. That's what made me angry. So I decided to train in singles. I figured it was easier to deal with myself...
...accept the premise that murder is wrong, it is improper to allow 12 jurors the power to deprive someone of their right to life just as it is improper for one individual to kill another. We do not live in a society that literally believes in "an eye for an eye." For example, if a husband beats his wife, we put him in jail instead of hand-cuffing him and allowing the wife to assault him back. Regardless of how reprehensible a murder may be, a criminal is fundamentally still human...
...criticism of the rally is two-pronged. First, it limits or, at least inhibits, ideological freedom because people with controversial views might refrain from speaking at the Kennedy School. Second, the rally gave students a superficial bird's-eye view of the controversy. Thus, by protesting the political ideology of a forum speaker, these students have potentially deprived themselves of other speakers who might offer different opinions. It seems as if the students who were walking in a circle, protesting and singing chants, were not just walking in circles in a literal sense...