Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bars of the end stall looked like anything but a big money man. His ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
Since a perfectly circular orbit is a bull's-eye in satellite launching, the Russian missilemen did not do quite so well with their second satellite...
...Internal Revenue Service cast its cold eye on the nation's expense account economy, and millions of U.S. taxpayers felt the chill. Henceforth, the collectors revealed last week, each taxpayer must list on Page One of Form 1040 the amount that his employer paid him for business expenses, and support the figure with a list summarizing total outlays for business meals, travel, entertainment, telephone, etc. If the expenses seem too big for the taxpayer's salary and profession, the auditors can demand a lunch-by-lunch, trip-by-trip account, force the taxpayer to pay income taxes...
...fashion coordinator of the wholesale branch, next year was hired as general manager and vice president of Miller's retail operations by General Shoe Chairman W. Maxey Jarman, who was convinced that fashion rather than comfort sold women's shoes. Jerry Stutz showed such a fine eye for fashion that shoe sales rose 20%; she became one of industry's highest-paid women, at an estimated $40,000 a year...
...Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy it. ¶ Warner...