Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Carl Yastrzemski didn't seem stoned when he took batting practice the next day. With the blind confidence of a speeding freight train, he pummelled each pitch exactly where he said he was going to put it, never seeing a doubt or distraction from the corner of his eye...
There were but three hits all game for the batsmen, all of them of the scratch variety. Rick Pearce beat out grounders to McDonald in the fifth and third baseman Doug Juiffre in the ninth, while St. John bisected the two with a seeing-eye job in the seventh...
Player once said: "All South Africans have this powerful feeling for land, and this has come down through the generations, too. My father had a keen eye. He was very good with a rifle, very good with golf clubs, and had this feeling for the lie of the land ... I do believe that I have some of it, in relation to golf ... I certainly have a feeling for the drainage of a golf hole, the sheltering effect of trees, the feel of the surface soil under my spikes...
Carter has seized one or two of the few odd moments of presidential quietude he has to put his eye to his family's reflecting telescope and search out the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra. He has asked his Secretary of Transportation, Brock Adams, to advise the engineers who design our mass-transit systems to simplify them so they are more functional. He has mulled the reasons why the huge power turbines lose reliability as they grow in size, and how thinking smaller may be one way to energy conservation...
Author John H. Davis has discovered in the Guggenheims his own rich vein of biography; his book fails only in the leaden prose. But Davis' unerring eye for anecdotes surmounts most stylistic obstacles and makes The Guggenheims a consistently fascinating saga...