Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...
Loudspeakers and two walkie-talkie units will bring an eye-witness report of tomorrow's crew races straight from the official coaches' launch to the finish line on the banks of the Charles...
...unquestioning faith and unquestioned freedom of expression resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance...
...finished with a book," says Churchill, "I go through it with a bulldozer." Phrases are burnished, whole chapters leveled and regraded. His own corrections are scribbled on galley proofs with red ink. A squad of helpers scans other proofs: Lord Ismay, his wartime military adviser, keeps an eye on military points, while others watch for grammatical or factual flubs...
...atmosphere of monastic calm. But unfortunately for the piece of mind he is trying to set down coherently in his bluebook, the exam proctors' activities are too often distracting. Proctors parade up and down the aisles, and frequently peer intently over the undergraduate shoulder, and when the undergraduate eye moves wearily around the room for a brief rest, it encounters the fierce, accusing glare of these vigilantes...