Word: eyesight
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...paid for his courage. After eleven years in Nazi concentration camps, Schumacher was a walking skeleton, his heart weakened, his eyesight half gone. Suffering lent him stature and magnified his will. To this gaunt, bitter man with the eyes of a Savonarola and a voice not unlike Hitler's, German Socialists rallied in the postwar gloom...
Prime Minister of Ireland Eamon de Valera, whose eyesight has been failing, flew to Utrecht for an operation by a Dutch specialist. His malady: glaucoma -a hardening of the eyeballs and deterioration of the retina...
High-grade morons (with a mental age of between ten and twelve years), said the institute's Research Director James Stannard Baker, make the best automobile drivers. If the moron's eyesight is a little below par, all the better-keeps his mind on the job. "The operation of a motor car," Baker explained, "is too dumb a job to command the attention of those who are particularly bright." And people with sharp eyes are apt to be distracted by shop windows or pretty faces...
Many eye doctors were inclined to sniff at the optometrists' new chart, arguing that most such gadgets are crude at best, and the Snellen is no cruder than the rest. However, the last word may be the optometrists' : they give three times as many eyesight tests as the ophthalmologists...
...ablebodied. The men on the left were never seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried in him 17 pieces of shrapnel from World...