Word: nearsightedness
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Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to...
Up to that time, Thackeray had never quite decided which to be. As a schoolboy, made miserable by a too massive head and painfully nearsighted eyes, he was "licked into indolence, abused into sulkiness, and bullied into despair." He took his revenge on his schoolmasters and schoolmates by drawing cruelly...
Three months later he finally met the Pasha, who was considerably better dressed and fed than his rescuers. The Pasha observed the historic meeting by drinking Stanley's champagne and "discoursing charmingly on a number of subjects." He reluctantly accompanied Stanley back to the coast. There, at a reception...
The Government's economic difficulties, the worst since Perón came to power, encouraged the opposition in its criticism and attacks, and also brought about counterattacks. Tubby, nearsighted, German-born Rodolfo Katz, whose weekly Mimeographed Economic Survey has long predicted economic troubles, was taken for a ride and...
Had I found, through a . . . career such as Mr. Wasserman's seems to have been, that only nearsighted men would go for me, I'm sure I'd be the last to admit it in public.