Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Alaskans have never seen a Secretary of the Interior close up, but they can visualize him instantly. He is a thin, watery-blooded, myopic creature who spends most of his time throwing messages from Alaskans into an incinerator, but occasionally he rings up the Army or Navy and gives them a few hundred more square miles of good territorial land...
...plague and damnation to the impractical intellectuals who impatiently castigate the United Nations and mournfully declaim that no good can come from so impotent an organization. The myopic hopefuls who would overnight transform an intensely nationalistic world into a blissful brotherhood of man are sadly ignorant of the political facts of life...
...program notes for Igor Stravinsky's new symphony. The notes were written by the composer's close friend Ingolf Dahl, and approved by Stravinsky. Last week the new symphony had its world premiere in Manhattan, conducted by Stravinsky, a myopic, big-eared, little man of 63, who hopped sparrowlike about the podium of Carnegie Hall. In contrast, he also played a revised version of his famed Firebird suite, which he had composed...
Burden of Shame. Before the day was out, the plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...
...pretext for Ryti's dismissal was a letter he wrote Hitler, promising that no Finn would make a step toward peace with Russia without first informing Berlin. But the cause of Finland's crisis lay deeper. Watching the Red Army thrusts along the Baltic, even the most myopic Finn could see that soon Finland would be cut off from Germany. The troops, tanks, guns and planes that Ribbentrop promised had not been delivered. Finns could no longer be fooled or fool themselves...