Word: eying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything to prevent the rule of evil on earth." And since Adenauer is an old man, he had best mend his ways fast, or, "according to Christian belief," he will soon "be severely judged by the heavenly court." Nikita's point: all West Germans with their eye on the main chance should start placing hedging bets with Moscow right...
Sylvia began to swim competitively when she was seven under the watchful eye of her Finnish-born father, a bear of a man (6 ft., 260 Ibs.) who works as an electrician and doubles as swimming coach for the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. Father Weikko Ruuska drills her incessantly, lumbers up and down the poolside while Sylvia performs, shouting "Giddyap, giddyap!" in a voice that some declare can be heard all the way across San Francisco Bay on clear nights. The Ruuska family practices togetherness. Each morning Mrs. Ruuska drives Sylvia to Berkeley High School on her way to the Y.M.C.A., where...
...Guilty Defendant. As the Portland story clattered over the press wires, many another newspaper began to turn a wary eye on puzzle contests. President Bernard Ridder of the St. Paul Pioneer Press made a worried call to Portland, then canceled his contest and turned its records over to the FBI.*At week's end the FBI was joined in its investigation by the U.S. Postal Service...
...back from three weeks of vacation in California, he found a memo from Cromie waiting on his desk. His top-drawer job was gone. Taking Scott's place as editorial boss of the Sun, with the title of managing editor, is a man who has had his eye on the job all along: harddriving, stolid, German-born Erwin Swangard, 50, who was demoted from assistant managing editor to night city editor by Scott, is cordially disliked by most Sunmen. Swangard thought that Scott was too close to his staff to be a good boss, and had mistakenly tried...
This last quality is supplied in abundance by Mr. Aaron, who handles the spookery with a deftness Houdini might not have scorned. He has a remarkable ability to keep the spectator's eye just where he wants it and his blocking is easy and effective. Both by blocking and by a contrast in acting styles, he keeps it clear that the Six Characters are part of a fundamentally different order of being than that of the troupe whose rehearsal they invade. The style he has found for the Characters is a shade overblown for my taste...