Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Krupsaw's portraits are especially well-executed; they have a serenity of mood and richness of tonality which reflect a well-trained eye and an expert craftsmanship, as in studies of Dr. Swoboda and Ansel Adams...
...Honshu sake bottler, Sato earned a degree from Tokyo University law school, started work as a government railways stationmaster, quickly rose to the post of Deputy Minister of Railways. As such, he caught the eye of postwar Premier Shigeru Yoshida, who made Sato his chief Cabinet secretary. Further boosted by another Premier, Nobusuke Kishi, who was his elder brother,* Sato went on to become a live wire in five Cabinets, played a leading role in Japan's economic miracle (his first name means literally "Prosperity Maker"). So smooth are Sato's looks that he has been called...
...sorry beginning for Pakistan's first try at democracy since 1958, when Ayub Khan seized power in a military coup d'état. Under his benign but dictatorial eye, a new form of in direct democracy was conceived. The nation's voters last November elected 80,000 "basic democrats" who last week cast their ballots for a President...
Reigning Sorcery. Brittany and western Normandy still produce a dozen stories a year of sorcery and witchcraft. Sometimes it goes beyond fun and games. In the Norman hamlet of Saint-Fraimbault last month, a woman drowned herself because she believed she was a victim of the evil eye, and a young farmer reportedly hanged himself for a similar reason. Driven to holy anger, the local priest cried from the pulpit to his tiny congregation: "You believe more in the devil's power than in God's. Sorcery reigns here as master...
...difficult to set down with any show of confidence exactly what he is telling us," said Richard Watts in the Daily Post. "Search me," said John Chapman in the Daily News. "In Tallulah Bankhead's famed critical phrase, there may be less to this than meets the eye...