Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Williams, the fight marked the end of the road; face bruised, one eye puffed nearly shut, five stitches in his cut lip, he announced that he was quitting the ring. He is leaving it the same way he found it-penniless. His share of the purse and ancillary rights may total $160,000, but cuts, taxes, and debts will probably take...
...17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...
...British press has hinted darkly -and erroneously-that the safety standards are merely hurdles designed to keep Europeans out of a market in which they sold 575,000 cars last year. With an eye for its vital exports, the British government has urged Washington to approach the issue with "flexibility." Actually, when the final standards are issued early next year, there probably will be concessions for manufacturers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...Scarlet, the incomparable Brain of Baker Street has inspired 21 stage plays (including a Broadway musical), more than 100 movies, and radio and television dramas innumerable. And in A Study in Terror, the first in a new series of Homespun horrors financed by the Doyle estate, the original private eye is granted a timely new mortgage on immortality...
David Rockwood's "Simon of Rhodesia" is rambling, exuberant, and fun. If there's more to it than meets the eye, I don't think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge us into thoughts of Stevens and Eliot, the poem does not justify its allusions. But taken lightly it's pleasant, and occasionally striking, as when a guitarist "plucked a flatted fifth as one might pluck the eyeball of a kitten...