Word: eyesight
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...York boy would understand-moved his wife and mother uptown. He was also an employee of a big corporation: G.E. had bought up Sprague Electric. The changeover made little difference at first. But during World War I (Wilson was turned down by the Army because of his bad eyesight) the Sprague branch opened a shop to build aircraft instrument panels. Charlie ran the show...
...Pleasure" shrewdly parodies the present undergraduate draft uneasiness with a "chances of Being Drafted" chart based on World Situation, declining eyesight, and class standing. And Charles Robinson's cartoon depicts a truck telescoped into a crevice in the road, with the bedraggled driver looking up at "Pardon This Inconvenience While Massachusetts Forges Another . . ." The other cartoons merely break up their respective pages...
People, he complains, "call my painting photographic and talk about my extraordinary eyesight-that I can see individual leaves on a tree at 100 yards. My eye isn't any more extraordinary than anyone else's. I know the leaves are there so I paint them there." By dint of hard work and fine craftsmanship, Lucioni adds up enough leaves to make convincing trees, and enough trees, barns, hills, etc., to give an accurate idea of what Vermont is like. "There," a lot of summer tourists can sigh, "is my own, my native land...
...Carolyn Joan's eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...
...Senate, I am definitely assured of being able to clean up my financial obligations within 90 days, so that I would be clear for the first time in twenty years . . . This . . . will enable me to face the future with confidence and the knowledge that even if I lost my eyesight, I would still have a comfortable living ... I can assure you that within a short time you will receive from me every cent that I owe you ... I am humiliated, disappointed and heartsick, but ... I can do nothing else . . . Please try to see this in the fairest light possible...