Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant, popular Democratic Attorney General...
Opening the fourth session of Britain's 300th Parliament last week, Queen Elizabeth II for the first time delivered her Speech from the Throne under the beady eye of the television camera. In Britain itself at least 12 million of her subjects were watching; in nine other European countries uncounted lovers of pageantry took in the spectacle...
...month ago had abolished parliamentary government and decided to rule with the army's help, was off to a holiday spot in the Quetta hills, while servants crated his personal belongings and prepared the presidential palace for its new occupant. At another Karachi mansion, General Ayub (pronounced: eye-yub) strode across the lawn to meet newsmen. Out of uniform, the general was wearing a blue cord suit with a red handkerchief peeping from a breast pocket, a pastel green shirt, a striped...
...Eyeful for Auntie. Auntie got an eyeful. Army Secretary Stevens looked "about as dangerous as an eagle scout leading his first patrol." Roy Cohn "looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him, and has come back with his elders to get the thing straightened out." As for the duel between McCarthy and Army Counsel Joseph Welch, "Mr. Welch proceeds at the measured pace of the minuet, with frequent, courtly bows. Senator McCarthy favors the tarantella, moving almost faster than the human eye can follow...
...record so far, Pope John XXIII will face the dangers and confusions of his era with the patience expressed by his favorite maxim of government, and probably with more force than it suggests. The maxim: Omnia videre, multa dissimulare, pauca corrigere-to see everything, to turn a blind eye on much of it, to correct a little...