Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...
Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 67, had a cataract removed from his left eye at Johns Hopkins Hospital. But a similar operation on his other eye, onetime Fullback Halsey decided, would have to wait until after the Army-Navy game...
...reached the climax of Hiroshima. Dr. Bush thumbs through the catalogue of miraculous instruments of World War II: radar, the eye which helped save Britain during the Nazis' all-out bombing campaign; sonar, the underwater ear which helped break the Nazis' almost-decisive U-boat campaign; missiles, such as the V-i which "might well have stopped the [Normandy] invasion"; rocket-firing bazookas which can stop tanks; recoilless guns which can be carried by two men and have the power of 75-mm. howitzers...
...ward doing little jobs. When they were at one side of the ward, they needed something at the other. And there were so many nurses walking back and forth that I hardly saw the same one twice. And in the bathroom there was a pipe across the mirror at eye level...
...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...