Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle between militant leftists and the party's centrists. On one side, determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
...this year in Atlanta. Like Chicago, San Diego employs a ruthless trader, General Manager Jack McKeon, whose name should be listed highest in the credits. Not all of the Padres' names are recognizable, though some deserve recognition, for instance Reserve Catcher Doug Gwosdz (pronounced Goosh), whose perfect nickname, Eye Chart, revives that poetic baseball art. McKeon has a sense of poetry too. It pleases him to think that no matter what happens now, one of Ray Kroc's favorite teams is going to the World Series...
...Installing wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left Cimino partially paralyzed on her right side...
...checked into the Neurological Institute at New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last week evoked a much different emotion. For at least two years, journalists and associates had noticed that Ali appeared to have aged beyond his years: his hand-eye coordination seemed to be impaired, and his speech was frequently unintelligible. The question was asked, aloud and in print: Could Ali, 42, who retired from boxing almost three years ago, be suffering from some kind of brain disorder...
...elemental force" that frees characters from land-based obligations and, more insistently, as a lens on another world. In The Adventure of a Reader, the hero compares a printed page to the plane of water "that separates us from that blue-and-green world, rifts as far as the eye can see, expanses of fine, ribbed sand, creatures half animal and half vegetable...