Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many others will agree, I'm sure, with the idea that as long as the evolution progresses from the solid body to the space between the eye and the object, and from there to the back of the mind, the next step after modern art will be taken by a man with a hole in his head...
...barman at Harry's New York Bar on the Rue Daunou ran a moody eye over his orderly customers, wiped a glass and remembered sadly, "We used to have four times as many Americans in here. They drank four times as much and got into four times as many fights...
...from Reno, Nev. Instead of Osaka's new houses, bustling factories, Nagoya boasts huge areas of rubble-littered ground and rotting weeds dotted with an occasional clapboard shack. The ruins of her factories, which Nagoyans had accepted reluctantly as part of the war, stretch as far as the eye...
...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...
Landlubber. In the moldering, sway-backed Goldenrod, twice sunk and salvaged in her 40 years, it takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke...