Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While out trapping rats in the rain for his research, Sean got two leeches stuck in his eye. It took our professor half-an-hour to pull them out with tweezers. And Sean walked around with the whites of his left eye blood-red for two weeks...
...hadn't seen Chris for months. He's twenty-seven or so, a professional cook, with broad shoulders, a mustache, and a good eye for pool. Every Christmas for the last few years, we meet and play at Rotten Rodney's on Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate...
...water, or like brandy in postprandial snifters. Single malts are as different from one another as Burgundy wines are from Bordeaux: a soft, sweetish Lowland malt like Auchentoshan is a wholly different taste experience from Laphroaig, one of the tangy, medicinal whiskies produced on the isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-la). Part of the appeal of these whiskies, in fact, is their craggy names. Once you've learned how to pronounce it, who can resist ordering a dram of Bunnahabhain? (Try Bu-na-HA-ven.) Worldwide, the single- malt sales leader is Glenfiddich, owned by William Grant & Sons...
Such arguments are behind the surge in support for a world park. The proposal by Australia and France last October that the continent be declared a "wilderness reserve" under the eye of an Antarctic environmental- protection agency -- essentially the world-park scheme by a different name -- was hailed by environmentalists as a big victory. The U.S., still officially committed to the Wellington agreement, did not go along with the new initiative. But some Administration officials are said to be opposed to the minerals convention, and Senator Gore claims he has the votes to prevent its ratification in the Senate. Observes...
...charges, magnified by the Manila rumor mill, have inflicted serious political damage. While the President herself is considered incorruptible, critics accuse her of turning a blind eye to family and friends who are said to be enriching themselves at the public's expense. "What good is a Blessed Virgin Mary if she is surrounded by Sodom and Gomorrah?" asks one disillusioned official. In a December speech after the coup attempt, even Jaime Cardinal Sin, Aquino's most important supporter, warned of "a social explosion" unless Aquino swiftly defused "unceasing reports of the abusive roles of presidential relatives...