Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine-story loft building at 35 East Twelfth Street, not far from Manhattan's Union Square. To its top-floor offices came the Communist International "Reps," the shadowy men with the changeable names like P. Green, G. Williams, A. Ewert, H. Berger, which in a wink of the eye might become Drabkin, B. Mikhailov, Braun or Gerhart Eisler. These were Moscow's agents. From the ninth floor the Word which they brought from Moscow was passed along to the faithful, to the party hacks on the Daily Worker and the Yiddish-language Freiheit, to the cultivators of organized...
Then ambulance sirens sounded. A babble of scared talk sprang up, and bystanders began to eye the damage. At first the damage looked ruinous. Tons of brick and rubble had cascaded down off old" buildings near Seattle's Pioneer Square, smashing parked automobiles. Great chunks of stonework had been flipped off the state capitol buildings at Olympia. Store fronts and brickwork in dozens of towns had collapsed, a radio tower had snapped, and hundreds of buildings showed cracks in walls and floors...
Brookwood, England hailed the battle-scarred winners of a father & son golf tournament, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who lost his left eye in World War I and his son, Major Viscount Keren, who lost his left arm in Africa...
Henry A. Wallace's 1948 running mate, Idaho's singing Senator Glen H. Taylor, decided that he was a Democrat after all. With an eye on next year's Democratic primary in Idaho, Taylor piously announced: "I never felt that I left the Democratic Party. I was just like a player that M-G-M loaned to another company...
Twice last week, wind & weather pushed the smog down so low that it cut visibility at street level. Moviemakers gave up plans for outdoor shooting and concentrated instead on interior scenes. Hundreds of citizens' eyes began to smart and water. Scientists could offer them no relief. There were scores of substances in smog: which of them caused eye irritation was still a mystery...