Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. The questioning, led by Lausche, turned to the crash of an off-course U.S. Air Force C-130 transport in Soviet Armenia last September; Lausche doubted the Soviets' insistence that they knew nothing about eleven crewmen still unaccounted for. Mikoyan looked Lausche in the eye and said: "You have no faith in us." Last week the State Department put out a tape-recorded transcript (see Foreign Relations) that proved again and unforgettably that Communists give words a special meaning of their own. The Kremlin had denied that the C-130 had been shot down...
After escorting his pregnant second wife to a lifeboat, coolly waving to her as the boat was lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ship Titanic while the orchestra played "Hold me up, mighty waters, / Keep my eye on things above." That left a nervous, narrow-chested youth of 6 ft. 4 in., perhaps the greenest freshman at Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House...
...Every time me 'member Charlie Water come in my eye. When me 'member them moonshine nights, Water come in my eye. Now me pickney*come born so pretty, And no papa for see, Charlie sail to England and left me- Water come in my eye...
...best. When not engaged in playful mayhem-one favorite game of his was to sit across the table from some Spartan friend, trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record in 1945. "I was also an awful popoff," said Woodward...
...high on around $12,000 a year. Everywhere the violent routine is just about the same: drop kicks that could snap a man's neck if the act were honest and they really landed in the face, bullet heads pounded boomingly against unyielding ring posts, ear biting, eye gouging, hair pulling, and plain, old-fashioned strangling...