Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower was pausing to study the knee, Britain's dashing Prince Philip, 46, was scouting the higher ground. On a visit to the fashion-design department at Salford Technical College, Lancashire, the duke's eye fastened disapprovingly upon a miniskirt worn by 18-year-old Lorraine Hillier. "You are not being generous enough," he chided. "Compared with others, you are not showing enough leg." Since her hem was already three inches above the knee, Lorraine could but blush and tee-hee, but later she went solemnly to the heart of the matter: "My boy friend would like them...
...relating to his official conduct," ruled the court, must be "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." So much for public officials. But what of persons very much in the public eye, though not public officials? They too play an important part in shaping the course and creeds of the country. Should not the press be permitted to write about and discuss these "public figures" with the same freedom that it does public officials...
...Sure." After running the Israeli tape through an electronic filtering process to eliminate static, Kersta chose 25 basic phonetic elements from the voice believed to be Nasser's, and the same elements from the CBS recording. These "phonemes," as they are called, included such sounds as ah, ee, eye, o and yeh, which are common to both English and Arabic. Words from the tapes containing the phonemes were then fed into a spectrograph, which electronically translated them into signals that activated a stylus...
Hand-Painted & Destroyed. Now new processes are beginning to be used for reproductions that fool not only the eye but the sense of touch as well, duplicating both the color and raised brush stroke of oil on canvas. Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, for one, was astonished when technicians in France showed him duplicates of his 1966 work, The Phantom Vessel: "I was absolutely incapable of detecting that they were not my original...
Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye...