Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Dearest Man. Pressagenting a plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
...York and Washington who were later to help him in his work for Puerto Rico. In 1926 he moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something about conditions in this island...
...Real Issue. Muñoz never took his eye off the political ball. He won a smashing legislative victory in 1944, and by 1948 he was a shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should demand U.S. statehood or national independence, was not a valid issue. The real issue, he insisted, was the social and economic welfare of the Puerto Rican people...
...operation to restore sight by transplanting corneas from one eye to another has been known for more than 100 years, but surgeons are still trying to improve it. For two days in Manhattan last week, eye specialists from the U.S. and eight foreign countries discussed the delicate operation at the first International Symposium on Corneal Surgery ever held, sponsored by the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration...
...thing is annual. And it happens the same way every year. So it is possible to present an eye-witness account of the bizarre events that will start to occur at precisely 7:15 a.m., unless, as was the case two years ago, the derby is postponed because of "inclement weather...