Word: eyeglass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
...forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing hands. Two days later, with both British and ELAS hot on his trail, he surrendered to the Greek police. He still wore his eyeglass...
...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
Thus scalded on its way out of the frying pan, Bausch & Lomb promptly fell into the fire. With 13 other U. S. makers of eyeglasses, five wholesalers, three trade associations (virtually the entire U. S. optical industry), it was accused last week by the same Federal grand jury of another anti-trust law violation. With its fellow defendants, the Government claimed, B. & L. had conspired successfully for the last ten years to keep the cost of eyeglass frames and lenses unnecessarily high. Government example: spectacles which would bring a profit at $7.50 are sold at a fixed price...