Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Explaining the fluctuation, Redmayne said that "a lot depends on the international problems facing the U.S." He pointed out that during the Korean War interest in the three services was very high. He also mentioned the rising level of myopic intellectuals in the University. More students, he lamented, are coming in with glasess and cannot pass the physical...
...myopic focus on military strength blinds us to our overriding common interests with all countries. We have a deep responsibility to contribute effectively and promptly to the economic and social development of other countries, instead of drawing them into the nuclear conflict. The great populations of Asia, Africa, and South America seek a more representative influence on world affairs. Only the creation of political and economic structures capable of realizing the technical possibilities and human potentialities can meet the needs of these dynamic societies. We must not impose the Cold War upon them, but encourage new solutions which...
...life," the D.A.R., the American Legion and Governor Barnett, to "clean up our textbooks" [May 16]: if the great enlightened state of Mississippi considers its educators less capable of deciding what is and is not to be taught in the schools than a combination of hysterical old women, myopic "Don Quixotes," prejudiced supremacist pressure groups and their puppets, I pity the next generation of Mississippi's children-condemned to a blinding, stifling ignorance...
Almost every politician in Washington last week qualified, in a strictly myopic sense, as "forward-looking." All eyes were fixed on the coming presidential campaign, to the neglect of a pile of pressing U.S. problems. In Congress, with two-thirds of the session already frittered away, Republicans and Democrats scarcely pretended to legislate, turned earnestly instead to making issues and polishing images for election-year politicking. After thrusting forward its hastily contrived, budget-busting alternative to the Democrats' plan for medical care of the aged, the Administration saw its compassion for ailing oldsters overshadowed by the Democratic Congress...
...ROSBURG, 33, is one of the most improbable of the younger stars. With small, weak hands, he has to pass up the pro's usual finger-entwined grip and just grab the club as though it were a baseball bat. Sweat fogs his glasses until he looks like a myopic insurance adjuster out for a Sunday round. He has muscle spasms in his back, an uncertain stomach. He once developed a skin allergy to leather: his hands broke out when he grasped the leather grips of his clubs. BUt Rosburg (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), a second baseman...