Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenage girl with a paper dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers or as high school classmates. Instead the vision came of proud fathers, perhaps survivors of World War II combat, holding up their squawking boy babies...
...from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA CHOICE written on it and a dart board that displayed a drawing of a woman's breast, with her nipple as the bull's eye...
...because he carries with him a kind of human talisman, an ancient named Colonel Sun, who bears every possible intimation of immortality. It becomes increasingly clear that the colonel's memory, while selective, goes back centuries, that Sun has a handy way with magic and, yes, an evil eye. He has a ready street wit too. When an earnest Californian wants to know his religious beliefs, he retorts, "If there were any gods, they would be on earth making us do their laundry for them...
...Anytime you get five or six politicians together you need at least one reporter to keep an eye on them," said Range, who covered the Vietnam War and the Berlin student uprisings in the late 1960s...
While Ron Mitchell has asserted himself as a dominating inside force in Ivy League play, success from the perimeter and the charity stripe has played an even larger role in the team's current four-game winning streak. Harvard shot an eye-popping 11-of-18 from three-point land in Tuesday's win over New Hampshire...