Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration had said nothing before yesterday about using U.S. warships to keep an eye on foreign vessels if they were carrying American-made arms...
...grass.' " Yet there is not an ounce of false sentiment in his speeches: "It probably doesn't make sense to talk about pain in a fish . . . an angler who had caught a perch told of finding himself unable to remove the hook without taking one of the fish's eyes out of its socket with it; he threw the fish back, baited his hook with the eye, and a few minutes later caught a one-eyed fish -- the very same...
...Keep you eye on the new committee the Overseers have appointed to examine how the Board is chosen. If the pro-divestment petition candidates do well this year, despite these manuevers to manipulate the vote outcome, you can be we'll see all kinds of recommendations aimed at making such challenges to traditional power at Harvard somewhere between difficult and impossible. Chester W. Hartman...
When a Wal-Mart discount store opens in your town -- which could happen soon if it has not already -- keep an eye out for a gray-haired 69-year-old wearing a flannel shirt and khaki pants. He may suddenly appear behind any Wal-Mart checkout counter to help the clerk approve a personal check. Or you may see the same grandfatherly figure driving his red-and-white 1984 Ford pickup through the parking lot, counting customers' cars as he goes. Or he may show up at the loading dock with a bag of doughnuts for a surprised crew...
...Science Foundation, is rapidly emerging as a leader in scientific graphics. Last year, for instance, Artist Donna Cox and Computer Scientist Ray Idaszak helped Caltech Astrophysicist Charles Ross Evans produce a short videotape depicting what in theory would occur in the collision of two neutron stars. To the untrained eye, the colliding stars look more like exotic flowers than a cosmic catastrophe. But the colors all have a quantitative meaning: areas colored red are ten times as dense as yellow ones, and yellow represents 100 times the density of blue. "People who are not involved in these calculations might wonder...