Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the jury stared at huge enlargements of the exhibits, Murphy read aloud, hour after hour, from State Department files. It was almost too much for theatrical, brush-browed Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker. Rolling a sympathetic eye toward the jury, he suggested that all the papers be put into evidence en masse-the defense, he said in his courtliest tones, would offer no objections at all if the Government wished to save time...
...others settled into familiar attitudes-little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
...this seems to me impossible, and it would be intolerable if it were possible. Making all teachers take an oath of loyalty would be most objectionable, from my point of view, and it will not keep out the Communists, who will swear falsely without batting an eye-lash...
Dean Mildred P. Sherman (above, left) is a veteran in the Radcliffe administration, in which she serves as Dean of the College. The title covers a multitude of duties; Miss Sherman is in charge of the problems, academic and otherwise, of the entire freshman class and keeps and watchful eye on all undergraduate extra-curricular activities, clubs, and Student Government workings. The small concave object at her feet in the picture is her dachshund, Klaus...
...Oceania only the poorly fed, beast-brained "proles" (proletariat) lead what might be called a natural life-in hideous slums. The rest of the population, comprising millions of abject party-members, live out their life-in-death under the all-seeing eye of the Ministry of Love, whose "telescreens" (which hear and see every move and sound and bark out harsh commands) are a fixture in every apartment. Each dreary day sees the disappearance of a colleague or relative into the Ministry's death-cellars. No one writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory...