Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eye for Beauty. In Brooklyn, William Spangehl, arrested for stealing a police patrol car, explained; "I liked the two-tone color...
Ropes & Gallows. By noon factories and shops had closed, trains stopped running. With an eye to a good turnout, someone had mobilized government trucks to haul workers to downtown B.A. from the outlying industrial districts. Many a worker, by the time he reached the Plaza de Mayo, had also been equipped with a sign bearing a Peronista slogan. Others carried loops of rope, or miniature gallows-a meaningful reminder of the bitter speech at Santa Fé in which Perón talked of hanging his enemies (TIME, Sept...
...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...
...Gypsy's number, CBS got the cinder out of its eye, and the rest of the show (including a parody striptease by Bob Hope) was perfectly clear...
Math, however, lately has turned into a bugaboo for McColl, and he plans to avoid it and science as much as possible while planning his program at the College. He intends to stress the liberal arts, with an eye to going on to law school...