Word: eyesight
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...case of a "nominal" (Nagasaki-type) atomic bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...
Public Mission: Barred from World War I combat duty (poor eyesight, damaged by an overdose of quinine after contracting malaria while on business in British Guiana), the up & coming lawyer wangled a captaincy in Army Intelligence. In 1919, he went to the Versailles Peace Conference as a reparations commissioner, was shocked when Woodrow Wilson's ideals foundered (as he says) "under the pressure of people who wanted to be vindictive." Never thereafter losing sight of the fundamental need for Christian tolerance and justice in international relations, Dulles in the '305 became the Presbyterians' No. 1 layman...
...agitator" whom Mr. Taub describes as "harassing the bull" is not an agitator and is not in the ring for the purpose of harassment. He is there to test the bull's eyesight, his manner of charging, his use of the horns. He deserves no sympathy if he gets caught, since he is practically forbidden to put himself in any danger. If he works close to the bull and looks good, he detracts from the maestro's performance. If he gets caught, he may spoil the bullfight: the bull often becomes too dangerous after he has tossed a man once...
...Then the two would warmly shake hands before re-entering the game. Even the British referee got in on the love feast. When he blew his whistle for a time out, players would scamper to him, rain compliments on him for his eminent fairness, surpassing judgment and keen eyesight...
Happily, two Cambridge Civic Association city councillors, Crane and Deguglielmo, had long since adjusted their eyesight to the halo's glare. As politicians, they knew far better than the despairing Herald that efficiency and honesty are no more than first steps to good government. Happily, too, the man they helped elect has equally keen eyes...