Word: squinting
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...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...Coyo owes this world few debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...
...21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark. Conversation will be a lost art. People will simply tell each other jokes...But why am I carrying on like this? Chances are that the grandchild of the Television Age won't know how to read this...
Faced with rising costs and low returns on endowment, many a U.S. college and university knows that it must raise more money or retrench. Last week, after a hard squint at the future, Yale University announced its target for the decade 1950-60: a massive $80 million in new gifts to help the university keep on growing...
...about eight times the height of the screen (4 ft. for a 7-in. screen; 6 ft. for 10 in.; 8 ft. for 12 in.). At such ranges, adults' eyes would feel a lot better, and television might even be used as an excellent supplementary method of treating squint or crossed eyes in children. By covering the healthy eye, a youngster's "lazy" eye can be painlessly strengthened while it is focused happily for an hour or more on Hopalong Cassidy and Captain Video...