Word: nearsightedness
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Propaganda. Talk of socialism pervaded the atmosphere. In Gera the reporters listened to a nearsighted Communist professor, who might have mistaken his visitors for Soviet newsmen, lecture a training class for new teachers. He argued that Britain and the U.S. had "only formal democracy," struck at the British Labor Government...
On the Missouri nearsighted little men in anachronistic top hats and clawhammer coats dully accepted defeat. Japan would have to start all over again.
More mature judges-a painter, a sculptor and a photographer-agreed that Lenore's honey-colored hair, green-grey eyes (she is nearsighted, often wears glasses), peaches-&-cream complexion were characteristically Canadian. They refrained from comment on her streamlined figure which is neither Canadian nor classic.*
In the Shadow. "Young Teddy" spent the first half of his life overshadowed by his father, and most of the last half overshadowed by his fifth cousin, Franklin. Like his father, he had been sickly and nearsighted as a boy, and had rough & tumbled to strengthen himself. Like his father...
With the school closed, the community in an uproar and a state investigation under way, Assistant Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in...