Word: myopics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferdinand VII and his inquisitors were slow at forgetting, and life in Spain for the aging, ailing Goya became increasingly irksome. Stone deaf and myopic at 78, he got permission to leave the country, traveled to Paris "to see the world," finally settled among a group of Spanish refugees in Bordeaux. There, in 1828, still painting and drawing with all his old vigor and many a new-found trick, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes died. A scene he would have enjoyed came on a subsequent fantastic midnight when ghoulish phrenologists stole his skull from the Bordeaux graveyard...
...hardly necessary for the myopic Japanese to see beyond their noses to realize that their communications, industry and man power were already in the em brace of a seductive war. Coal was short, and winter was near. Rice was scarce. The Government recently felt obliged to reduce the diameter of match sticks from .072 to .06 of an inch. Women patrolled Tokyo last week handing out cards to luxuriously dressed people which admonished "right recognition of the present situation in the country." Geisha girls had been instructed not to accompany their clients to the theatre, on flower-viewing trips...
Thus far Japanese Christianity has shown little inclination towards martyrdom in either the early Christian or hara-kiri tradition. Significantly silent has been Japan's most famed Christian, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, a Presbyterian convert and founder of the Kingdom of God movement, who privately deprecates Japanese supernationalism but avoids public condemnation of it. When Christian Kagawa visited India last year, Mohandas Gandhi took him to task for this. Kagawa hinted that to speak might lose him his life...
...London Economist called the U. S. mood "deliberately myopic ..." a mood that "should be very familiar to Englishmen, for it is almost exactly similar to that in which we spent the year 1938." The Economist cited Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing: "Just now we appear to be passing out of our Baldwin era and approaching our Munich era. We are entitled to the patient understanding of any Englishmen who can recall their own recent evolution...
...Cyclops (Paramount) recounts, with a slight flavor of sadism, what goes on when a shave-pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13 inches. Victims of this scientific zeal are Dr. Cyclops' nosy colleagues (Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian...