Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination at Walter Reed Hospital...
...into racial bigotry, he can be redeemed . . . Nonviolence is our testing point. The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back." With such an approach he outflanked the Southern legislators who planted statutory hedgerows against integration for as far as the eye could see. He struck where an attack was least expected, and where it hurt most: at the South's Christian conscience...
...eye encompasses the end of the horizon...
Since Pancho has his eye on the present, he is out to win every set he can in his eighth year as a pro. Now an oldtimer at 28, Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer...
Greatest of all the Russian capitalist collectors was Moscow Tea Merchant Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, a neat little man with a big head and striking features, who had an uncanny eye for art. One of his earliest modern art enthusiasms was for Henri Matisse, whom he first met in 1906 when Matisse was 37. By 1914 Shchukin had loaded up with 36 Matisse paintings. Collector Shchukin's second stroke of luck happened when Matisse passed him along to Picasso, and the Russian merchant became one of the young Spanish painter's first important patrons. Shchukin had the good sense...