Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his father was still in Congress, Billy lived part-time in Washington, became a familiar sight in the Capitol corridors. He was a political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke...
Busting his Britches. The new Senator hustled himself onto the first plane to Washington, received his Army discharge there in a single afternoon. He was a strange sight. He had put on weight in the Army (the harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William...
...clear, he said, that the West has never been in sight of the 1952 target of 85 military divisions in the central sector of Europe, and that while tactical nuclear weapons and the possibility of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile had lessened the danger somewhat, they also created great uncertainty as to when, and in what manner, NATO forces would actually be used...
...last week's meeting Dr. Max W. Lund of the Office of Naval Research took stock of man's abilities and compared them with those of machines. Man's sight and hearing are good, he said. The eye responds to as little as three or four quanta of light, and the ear can hear sounds only slightly louder than the ghostly rustle of air molecules clashing together. Both human sight and hearing apparatus, said Lund, are close to theoretical perfection within their class...
Produced with the help of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the show interspersed its film clips with informal question-and-answer chats by scientists. Some of the developments were not new, but the sight of them was. Samples: tranquilizer pills transformed a jabbering schizophrenic into a calmly rational man; the gelatinous flutter of an exposed human heart was deliberately stopped by injection to permit a surgeon to repair the heart while a machine pumped the patient's blood. To keep spectators abreast of scientific strides, CBS now plans a series of weekly half-hour shows...