Word: nearsightedness
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Young men who are eager to brighten her after-hours life come away baffled. "If she doesn't think a joke is funny," one complained, "she doesn't laugh." Wolves are discouraged when Grace briskly pulls on her glasses (her lovely blue eyes are nearsighted) and assumes her...
Myopic Triumph. In Miami, arrested for firing a shotgun at six rowdy teen-agers who were throwing rocks at his house and slightly wounding two of them, William Winslow Gordon, 79, explained with satisfaction: "I've shot at them lots of times before, but I'm nearsighted, and...
Then, if Dave feels the crowd with him and if his psyche is in good order, a unique event takes place. The rhythm seems to take hold of everybody in the room. Drummer Dodge feels it and starts to bang on his Chinese cymbal (an instrument studded with loose rivets...
The chemistry professor finished his first lecture and stood idly by puffing on a cigarette while an assistant explained the laboratory. "By the way," the professor interrupted in a faint foreign accent, "The University specifically forbids smoking in classrooms. But Gentlemen, I am very nearsighted. So nearsighted that I cannot...
As he started to speak, Thompson and Jones waited anxiously, for sometimes the nearsighted Dromgoole seemed to be straying wildly from his notes. For long stretches at a time, he would blurt out fanciful ad libs ("I thought he would never stop," says Thompson). And then there was that terrible...