Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence. Same day, Adenauer once again promised the Christian Democratic Executive Committee that he would run in the presidential election "unless new developments force me to reconsider." Less than 48 hours later Adenauer discovered some "new developments." What were they? The Geneva talks-which to the naked eye had not changed a bit. Wrote Adenauer to top Christian Democratic brass: "If the Geneva conference does produce some success, we will have to reckon with a long series of additional international meetings and this will demand on our behalf extreme watchfulness. If Geneva ends in stalemate, the ensuing situation will...
...holy man, Nichiren's criticisms of other sects led to frequent persecution. He lived in the streets and preached to the poor, reportedly foretold the Mongol invasion of Japan and its defeat, was famed for his litany: "I shall be the pillar of Japan. I shall be the eye of Japan, and I shall be the great vessel of Japan." He died in Tokyo...
...complaisance, there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...
...famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant as such modern objects can be (see color pages), they tend more to snag the imagination like an unexpected piece of barbed wire than hold the eye transfixed in admiration...
...automen enjoying their first spring buying surge in four years, the new sales figures last week were eye openers. During May, dealers sold 529,800 U.S.-built cars, 34% more than a year earlier and the highest total for any month in two years...