Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...
Myopia results when the eye's lens (just behind the pupil) cannot bring the incoming light rays into focus on the retina at the back of the eyeball but focuses them at a point in front of it. A myopic youngster's glasses have to be changed every year or two (sometimes oftener) because, as he grows, his eyeball lengthens and the out-of-focus effect gets worse. Though this early myopia usually stabilizes when growth ends, it may have become so severe that glasses could not possibly provide 20/20 or even 20/30 vision; some victims end with...
...midst of the intricacies of Arab diplomacy, myopic, 55-year-old King Saud found time for love. Last week Beirut's Al Hawadis broke the news that Saud planned to acquire a new wife: 17-year-old Ferial Solh, niece of Lebanese Premier Sami Solh...
Glory be-I never thought I would live to see the day when myopic TIME would realize as it did in its May 27 lead article that President Eisenhower is sadly lacking in political stature, conviction and political ability. My own guess about his future place in history is that he will suffer from comparison with President Grant...
Awkwardly mounted on a large black horse, a Tokyo university professor spurred up to his assembled students crying, "Today even the heavens are rejoicing." In the imperial palace near by, a slight, myopic man periodically stepped onto a balcony to acknowledge 100,000 voices raising a roar of banzai (ten thousand years). Less than a dozen years after renouncing the legend that he is a descendant of the gods, Hirohito, the 124th Emperor of Japan, was again the object of something close to religious veneration...