Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parseghian hadn't recognized the ability of Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour, he would have had to be the most myopic football coach between Juárez and Sault Sainte Marie. By the time they were seniors in high school, they were two of the hottest young prospects in the U.S. Both were all-conference, all-state (Terry in Pennsylvania, Jim in Michigan) and All-America. And both got scholarship feelers from more than 40 colleges...
...clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
Reston's plea for more subjective, long-range thinking invites dangers which straight news reporting avoids. There are probably hundreds of myopic reporters all over the country who are itching to outline in their news stories their concept of what foreign policy should be. Reston's case studies would have to be censored by an intelligent editor in order to bring the readers an accurate version of what the options open to the Administration really...
...writer was slightly myopic...
Last week SAM proved as myopic as ever. In the biggest daily barrage of the war, eleven SAMs were fired-and not one hit its mark. When SAMs tried to strong-arm Navy jets near Haiphong, the "airdales" roared in and struck the site, sending up spiraling smoke from a secondary explosion-probably a missile. Even when two SAMs were fired near Vinh at night, Air Force Phantoms could avoid them. "They looked like Roman candles," said one U.S. pilot, "lighting up the night sky." All told, only 14 of the 243 U.S. planes lost over North Viet Nam have...