Word: eyesight
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However, sentimental favorites don't always win out in pro sports and Conigliaro was then traded to the California Angels. He played only half the 1971 season with them, quitting in frustration in midseason after suffering a string of strikeouts. He insisted his eyesight was deficient...
...first wife Althea, a campus beauty at Ohio State during his years there, appears as an unpleasant caricature-by no coincidence closely resembling her ex-husband's caricature of the engulfing Thurber Woman. Second Wife Helen Thurber, who shared his life through his years of dimming eyesight and blindness (and who did the authorizing) is treated with warmth. Clearly she deserves it, but the disparity between the two portraits nevertheless smacks of the dreary side-taking that follows any suburban divorce...
...deaths in 1975; hypertension is the major contributor to kidney disease. An untreated hypertensive is four times as likely to have a heart attack or a stroke as someone with normal blood pressure and twice as likely to develop kidney disease. Thousands of Americans will have their eyesight impaired, suffer from internal hemorrhages or miss work because of hypertension...
...wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection at age 16 permanently and severely impaired his vision. "I am," he wrote, "to a considerable extent a function of defective eyesight." Yet he managed to function with enormous discipline, teaching himself to read Braille?just in case?and slowly poring over books and paintings with a magnifying glass...
...many parents have not. Dr. Eric Denhoff, an early researcher in the field, estimates that at least half of the 6,000 children on amphetamines in Rhode Island should not be. In Seattle, one researcher found several children taking the drugs when their restlessness actually was caused by poor eyesight or allergic reactions to the glue or dye in their schoolbooks...