Word: eying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp eye behind Vision belongs to Publisher William E. Barlow, 41, a personable promoter who persuaded about 27 investors to put up $750,000 to start the company in 1949. The biggest pocketbook behind Vision belongs to Board Chairman J. Noel Macy, of the family that controls a profitable string of nine dailies in New York's wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision...
Perkin Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Each "eye" is 3 in. in diameter but weighs only 3.5 oz. The telescopes are not producing photographic images, but are capable of detecting contrasts of light (clouds are usually brighter than land, land brighter than oceans...
...Backer Melvina Rivet), which promptly required shrine passes from all pilgrims (86^ for French, $1.72 for foreigners), launched sidelines to bring in more money-sale of medals, souvenirs, books. Aghast at more commercialism, Bishop Théas protested to Rome, which finally sent a coadjutor bishop to keep an eye on the enterprising association...
...Phillips keeps a sharp eye on the books of his 100 companies (1958 sales: $39 million), though he admits: "The building stage is the most exciting of all. I can't stand the bookkeeping part. I tell them 'I'll make it and you count...
Right As Robespierre. In The Enemy, a loyal young Hungarian Communist gradually puts out the eye of his own conscience after he is told that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...