Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, myopic man known as O-Tenshi-Sami, Son of Heaven, is a religious symbol, explained OWI. As such, he is a potent puppet in the hands of the warlords-but some day he might be an equally useful puppet to the Allies...
...formal morning dress, the Diet of Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
...than a council of Europe and a council of Asia for retiring, if not into nationalism, at least into a mere council of the Americans? We are not European any more than we are Asiatic. For a European like Churchill to consider Europe the main show is understandable, if myopic. For an American to think so would be strange indeed...
...opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party...
...means myopic. He observes, in the gait of the women, "a kind of serenely confident ostentation"; he notes too that they are bold with their eyes in the streets, and the men shy, almost to a reversal of sex. To him the well-known myth about the dominant American female is incorrect; "it seems to me rather the cult of woman, a little in the spirit of the troubadours. ..." When Remains explains to him that American men, though you may talk with them freely about the French or Chinese or Tahitian, have "a curious-and in a way admirable...