Word: eyelids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria as a man can be, loves the job. Rowland Hughes came to Washington in 1953, a political innocent. A conscientious Christian Scientist since boyhood, he has never been known to raise his voice or slap a back-despite the swashbuckling appearance of an eyepatch that covers an eyelid injury.* By nature and by dint of 37 years' unbroken service with New York's National City Bank, he is that increasingly valuable U.S. type, the comptroller-or, as an honorary degree from his alma mater (Brown University) put it last June: "One of those rare individuals to whom...
...took up with his people last week was foreign policy. Cambodia, he said, would join Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...
...girls decide that something must be done and, in a remarkable display of Gallic logic, convince themselves that murder is the answer. They feed Paul a sleeping potion (Simone professionally raises his eyelid with her thumb to be sure he is really out cold) and then drown him in a bathtub while the camera records every detail with an evil relish-right down to putting a heavy bronze lion on his chest to keep his head under water...
Among themselves, White House staffers called Hughes "The Buccaneer," because of his bold black eyepatch. He has worn one for twelve years or so to cover an eyelid injury, but the rakish effect is only accidental. Actually, Hughes, like Dodge, is a quiet career banker who neither smokes nor drinks, has no absorbing hobbies, worries himself with no sports...