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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be called in to help the family. Kennedy decided that the J.A.B. was dipping too deeply into social work that was not police duty. He put 100 of the J.A.B. men on the streets as a "Task Force" with the more immediate crime-preventive role of keeping an eye on troublesome gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Strong Arm of the Law | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Fading Recession | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have an East wind in my face and a gusty West wind behind me. So I suppose the rules of golf are not bad for my particular game: slow back, head down, eye on the ball-and follow through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez employed. Claude Monet, on the other hand, made his own discovery, that light acting and reacting over objects is all that the eye knows of them, and that color in shadows, far from being black, often strikes the eye more caressingly than in blinding sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieces of the Louvre: Part II | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Always Ségur keeps before his eye the vision of the Grande Armée as a sort of international brigade marching to liberate (among others) the Poles from an Asiatic despotism. It was indeed not a French national force but a great group of armies-half a million men from 17 nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Retreat | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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