Word: myopic
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...Look out where you're going!" yelled the myopic young...
...Pardon, what did you say?" asked the myopic student, but Bundie merely stared at the parcel. The student muttered something and turned back to his seat...
Despite last week's results, it is not myopic or insane to suggest that the Crimson has a good chance of springing an upset either tonight against the Quakers or tomorrow against Princeton. In the first place, the "home court advantage" is more than a myth; it is an asset worth perhaps as much as ten points...
...that day, George Whitmore, 19, a myopic, pock-marked Negro drifter with an IQ of 60, walked up to a Brooklyn cop in an area where a nurse had barely managed to frighten off a rapist the night before. "What was all the shooting about last night?" asked Whitmore carelessly. For days afterward, he was answering, not asking questions...
...meeting this week in Nigeria. But at home Niemöller is more and more regarded with the same kind of pained dismay that Anglican clerics reserved for the late "Red Dean" of Canterbury-and for a not wholly dissimilar reason. He is now a militant but myopic neutralist, whose angry blasts against "warmongering" always seem to be addressed to the West and never to the Communist world...