Word: eyeshot
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...near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot-behind an oleander hedge on a bank sloping down from the pool-where the guards would be within earshot but not eyeshot...
...bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown a pie at the ambassador's wife...
...Pizarro's old palace, created a small park plainly in need of embellishment. So they simply sent around a crane which plucked the 6½-ton statue of Pizarro from its old base and set it in the park. The conqueror's bronze eyes are still within eyeshot of the plaza he founded, but, as one of his defenders indignantly protested, "they have shoved him from the parlor to the basement...
...been pushed out of eyeshot, and Maypole went after him. Someone told him to follow a wire to the forward command post's generator. He hounded it through the stinking jungle, over dead trees, dead Japs, swampland, until alone Marine popped his head out from behind a log and hollered...