Word: eyesight
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...East Providence, R.I., District Judge Eugene J. Sullivan listened patiently while James S. Gomes, 73, argued that his eyesight without glasses was normal for driving, watched as Gomes deftly threaded a needle three times in a row without the aid of glasses, tried and failed to do the same thing himself, dismissed the case...
Hearing Glasses. For clients who are vainer about their hearing than their eyesight, Otarion, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has designed a hearing aid housed in standard, horn-rimmed glasses. The amplifier fits behind the ear and since no cord or attachment is needed, the glasses can be put on and off like an ordinary pair. Price...
Therapist Brook learned his technique the hard way-working on humans. With his delicate touch, he says, he has treated insomnia, twitches, failing eyesight, ulcers, bad tempers and alcoholism. He has even helped golf addicts to lower their scores. When he discovered that his laying on of hands worked in absolute silence, he was ready to take on dumb animals...
...aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea: 16 Russian MIGs. McConnell believed in aggressiveness and good eyesight. "Everything," he once said, "I owe to my eyes." Also: "I can walk into a squad room, watch the men playing ping-pong, and pick out the best fighter pilots...
...Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot. As she lies in bed, half-crazed, alone, and dying, Felicité's last earthly vision is of a huge parrot hovering over her head. Flaubert keeps...