Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day for the impeccable Jacques Dumaine, chief of protocol at the Quai d'Orsay, who is known around press rooms and chancelleries as Jeeves. In magnificent cutaway, his monocle fixed now in his right, now in his left eye, he was the embodiment of conventional diplomacy. With discreet gestures of guidance, he led delegate after delegate to a huge table in the French Foreign Ministry's Galerie de la Paix where the Allies signed their lenient peace treaties with Hitler's former allies, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. After the signing, the treaties were sent to Moscow...
There, under the physical education program, he started to play baseball seriously and caught the eye of such big leaguers as Cleveland's Bob Feller...
Polished Performance. As a writer, Tinker was never as prolific as he wished to be. Blinded in one eye when a boy, he had to guard his sight carefully. Once, when he thought he might lose it entirely, he began memorizing great chunks of poetry to be able to go on teaching. He looked upon teaching as an exacting art, and worked upon each lecture as if it were to be his first. Every lecture was a performance. Settled in a chair by his desk and crooking his neck around to peer through his one good eye, he seemed...
When this bill was only a mad gleam in Rankin's eye a few months ago, few people were disturbed. It looked like Rankin was just going to try to embarrass the Administration by yowping about veterans' rights in his Veterans' Affairs Committee. But the colorful statesman from Mississippi was able to ram his project through the committee--most of the members stalked out of the "hearing" in protest against the chairman's arbitrary tactics--and he was also able to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday...
...have much work to do with the team. Golf is famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...