Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eye and a body ready to put itself into...
Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...
...Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg's practiced eye never wandered off the high policy line...
...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...