Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery of a distinct phase of normal sleep which is known as REM. At fairly regular intervals during the night, the electrical waves of a sleeper's brain become as active as they are during wakefulness, and his eyeballs dart and swivel in a series of rapid eye movements (REMs). During these periods of REM sleep, which typically last 20 to 30 minutes, the sleeper is most likely to dream...
...publications aimed at the 18-to-25 age bracket. But how to reach them? One method is to hire professionals to turn out smooth articles in hip lingo in a psychedelic or Art Nouveau layout ("Talking to kids in their own language," it's called). Cheetah and Eye magazines tried that - and folded...
Violence characterized many of Hemingway's personal relationships too, as novelist John Dos Passes found out when he visibly and unflatteringly portrayed Hemingway in his novel Chosen Country. Hemingway spoke lividly of training his dogs and cats to "attack one-eyed Portuguese bastards." According to Baker, he called Scott Fitzgerald, who revered him, "a rummy and a liar with the inbred talent of a dishonest and easily frightened angel." Thomas Wolfe he rated as "a one-book glandular giant with the guts of three mice." Once he provoked a fight in a hotel dining room with William Saroyan...
...that brings him back to Egypt, where he had served as a soldier in World War II. Officially, Townrow is there to help arrange the affairs of an elderly widow, assuming an altruistic role as the dead husband's best friend. But being Townrow, he keeps a twitching eye out for a piece of the estate...
...have felt the pride the pride of an alumnus, proud that a few Harvard students finally had the courage to show their fellows that the tweed of Harvard administrators and history professors, the blues of racist city police, the khaki fatigues of American soldiers in Vietnam, and the green eye-shades of New York Times editors, are all but the various uniforms of flunkies for the same man (or has it become an uncontrollable machine?). I sang "With the Crimson in Triumph Flashing" on the exercise yard today. James R. Wessner #17837 Federal Youth Center Ashland, Kentucky