Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish as a source of protein. Hence the American fishing industry has not kept pace with some of its competitors in either technology or organization. And what American captains tend to regard as poaching is usually done within the law.*The U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries keeps a sharp eye out for irregularities. Last week an American investigating team boarded a Soviet ship for an inspection and found everything in order...
...guest, Dan Rowan of Laugh-In. Rowan awarded Pastore ("Pastore-P-a-s-t-o-r-e") the "fickle-finger-of-fate award" for "keeping up the good work." As one CBS official put it privately last week, "Tommy had been sticking his finger in the network's eye and something had to be done...
...dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales...
...garish profusion of hamburger stands, fruit-juice parlors, pancake emporia and muffler-repair shops stretches for ten miles along Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. It could be called Franchise Row. Though hardly a landscape to captivate the eye, the phenomenon is increasingly common to cities and suburbs. Franchising-an arrangement by which local entrepreneurs lease their firm name, product and operating methods from large chains-has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of U.S. business. Through franchising, thousands of independent small businessmen have acquired improved techniques, new economic power and a greatly enhanced chance...
Ernest had a way of attracting further tests. In the early Paris days, his infant son, Bumby (John Hemingway, first child by first wife, Hadley Richardson), cut the pupil of Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...