Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People & places. There will be more "take-outs" like those on Korea and Formosa. Our correspondents and editors are now collecting information on other Western Pacific islands, Yugoslavia, Iran, Turkey-for the time when they may be in the focus of the news...
Sweet Vapors. The half-legendary Indian surgeon Susruta,* says Dr. Kirby, was able to operate successfully for cataract by piercing the eyeball and pushing the clouded lens down out of the light rays' path. This partly restored the patient's sight, though not his power to focus. Susruta also anticipated modern aseptic surgery: his operating room was fumigated with sweet vapors; the surgeon kept his hair and beard short, his nails and hands clean. His patients even seem to have inhaled some kind of anesthetic...
Like millions of other civilians-turned-soldiers, Ben Isaacs became hardened to combat and began to pull his weight. But his ingrown, slit-focus view of life kept him on sour emotional rations. Face of a Hero is less a novel than a first-person recital of discontent: Ben's buddies didn't know what they were fighting for, the B-24s weren't fit to fly, some of the officers were deadweights, the G.I.s behaved crudely with Italian civilians, the Red Cross girls dated officers only...
Broadway Dandy. Whitman was at his best when, in impressionistic, rhapsodic style, he told about his New York-"the great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the focus, the main spring, the pinnacle, the extremity, the no more beyond, of the New World ..." A tall, graceful young man in fashionable top hat and frock coat, Whitman took a stroll every day down Broadway to the Battery, in search of editorial inspiration. In his lapel was a fresh boutonniere, on his arm a dark and polished cane, in his roving eye a twinkle. He sniffed the clean...
...Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them: the Kum River...