Word: eyesight
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This organ must be very useful to the snake, say Bullock and Cowles. Rattlesnakes have good eyesight, but they do most of their hunting at night or underground, and so must be grateful for an organ that points out warm prey. A snake crawling down a dark burrow after a warm mouse quivering at the end of it can "see" its prey through its pits...
...draft authorities were not bound to follow the recommendation, however, and instead ordered him up for a final physical examination and induction into the Army if he passed. In hopes that he would be rejected because of his poor eyesight and thus avoid imprisonment, he reported for his physical. If he were accepted, he planned to refuse to submit to induction and then turn himself over to civil authorities...
This Woman Is Dangerous (Warner) shows how Joan Crawford loses her eyesight and then finds true love in the antiseptic arms of the surgeon who saves her vision. The stumbling block to this romance is that Joan, as usual, has a lurid past: she is the brain, front woman and nursemaid to a pair of hysterical gunmen (David Brian and Philip Carey). What with planning robberies, quieting their tantrums and offering such motherly warnings as, "Now don't hurt anyone," as she passes out the guns, it is remarkable that she doesn't lose her mind as well...
Actually, Barkley is feeling fine; he is just a bit old (73) to be considered as a running mate for aging Harry Truman, who will be 68 at convention time. His eyesight, which has been bad for some time, has taken no sudden turn for the worse. He shows up on the floor of the Senate almost every day, rotates the presiding chair in a system worked out by Democrats to share a wearisome job. (Said a clerk: "It used to be a great honor; now it's a problem of who gets caught...
...public address announcer pleads that "all quarter-mile relay men please report to the starting line at the judges' table"; just wander over to the football enclosure and size up next year's team. Or try and dope out the intricacies of a rugby match, or question the eyesight of an umpire...