Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just read your April 1 eye opener about France's barbarous activities in Algeria. It is disgusting that we are forced to ally ourselves with France against the free world's common enemy, Communism...
Just as the President characterized the McLeod nomination as State Department business, State last week cocked a quizzical eye at an ambassadorial choice made directly by Ike. The nominee, to replace Career Foreign Service Officer Frances E. Willis as Ambassador to Switzerland: Henry J. (for Junior) Taylor, 54, of Charlottesville, Va. Lifelong Republican Taylor is an independently wealthy businessman (Chairman Silicone Paper Co. of America, Inc.) and sometime author (Men in Motion, Men and Power), who switched to journalism on the eve of World War II. During the war he specialized in the "big picture," covered headquarters closely, became friendly...
...palace budget of $4,000,000, the Sultan maintains a yoman "Black Guard" and their 300 horses, keeps 35 cars ranging from a Rolls Royce to a jeep, and big villas and staffs for his two sons and the three elder daughters. Apple of her father's eye is three-year-old Lalla Amina, daughter of the Sultan's second wife, who can break up any council of state by dashing in and flinging herself into her father's arms...
Glaucoma results from an increase in the pressure of the watery fluid inside the eyeball, which ''backs up" because it gets into the eye in normal amounts but cannot drain out fast enough through narrowed or diseased channels. It usually begins painlessly, and in such cases the first sign of its onset is the loss of side vision. Said Dr. Horsley: "The unsuspecting victim is sometimes almost completely blind before he realizes his visual loss. It is heartbreaking to have to tell these patients that they will never be able to regain the sight they have lost...
Taken in hand early, glaucoma can be effectively controlled in most cases. For the majority of patients, specially prescribed eye drops will lower the pressure to normal. In certain cases, where drugs do not reduce the tension sufficiently, surgery is often useful. Of victims who did not get treatment in time, 40,000 are now blind and 150,000 partially blind; estimates of U.S. glaucoma victims runs as high as a million, with half of them unaware that they have...