Word: nearsightedness
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But Japan is cautious, even for a jackal, as the western powers might have discovered ten years ago. There was little likelihood that she would spring while long-range Soviet bombers remained within hopping distance of Tokyo, while an estimated 175 Soviet submarines lurked beneath the waters of Vladivostok and...
In many other industries businessmen thumbed the calendar, wondered when their turn would come: Warehouse space is one thing the U. S. has long had too much of. Some nearsighted manufacturers were still tearing down empty buildings in order to save local real-estate taxes last week. But U. S...
In those last seven days the incredible Willkie train ended its 18,759-mile run. It had been rolling for 51 days. At week's beginning it was in Ohio. Almost invariably behind schedule, it had pulled out of Jackson on time, leaving behind two court reporters and seven...
But he could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in...
Twenty-eight years ago, President Skinner hired a clumsy, bespectacled high-school lad named James T. Buckley to work in the chemistry lab. He broke so much glassware that he was transferred to engineering. There he broke so many hard-rubber jars (for storage batteries) that Skinner yanked him out...