Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eye of last week's storm was the TV documentary on Britain's commercial Channel 4, MI5's Official Secrets. In it, Cathy Massiter, 37, a former agency intelligence officer, charged that for the past 15 years her ex- bosses had been illegally wiretapping British union officials as well as human-rights and political activists. Her assertions were supported by another former MI5 employee, an anonymous clerk, who said she was responsible for transcribing the intercepted phone calls. "The evidence of Ms. Cathy Massiter and her unnamed former colleague," declared the Guardian after the story broke, "is potentially the most...
...Finnish-born Right-Winger Jari Kurri, the Oilers' and the league's second leading scorer, Whitney half-steps out of the mouth of the goal to minimize Kurri's angle, and just then a puck plunks off his back into the net. Whitney says, "If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet, your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net, and he'd hit it every time." As majestic as the sight of Orr full bore used to be, at least he appeared out of somewhere...
...contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street to the shopping center in St. Cloud...
Relief can be hard to find, though, at a game in which such a cut throat attitude reigns supreme. And, since basically the only skills you need to play foosball are good hand-eye coordination and being able to see over the table, "the good guys and bad guys can play on an equal level," says Ineman. Harrington adds, "Heck--our girlfriends are beginning to play...
Geneva's shining city greets the eye:/Proud, noble, wealthy, deep...