Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columns: "Turn 'em over!" Sergeant Pullen and his crew leaped into their tank. He ordered the driver out of his seat on the left side, took the controls himself. When a tank is buttoned up (i.e., the turret top and ports are closed) the driver's only vision is through two tiny (one-inch by four-inch) slits in the inch-thick armor. Peering through the main gun port, the tank commander in the turret actually guides the tank by varying foot signals to the driver (to start, a light kick in the back; to stop, a steady...
...pictures," the censors said. Oh cruel words! Oh cold, cold world! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE PICTURES? Isn't the aforesaid vision the successor to the Gibson Girl; isn't she as typically American as a corner drug store? If she can be crushed out by blue-noses at will, to "satisfy them Back Bay Puritans", as a character on the Square affirmed, won't cigarettes, Coolidge specials, and bedtime stories be next? And anyhow, is that any way to treat a lady...
...Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...
Testifying in a Los Angeles court on behalf of two women (afterwards acquitted) on trial for practicing optometry without a license, lank, brooding British Author Aldous Huxley described the improvement in his vision which had come from exercises they had given him - including staring at Mexican jumping beans and bouncing dice till he could read with out glasses...
...There are many possible roads to our cherished vision of democracy...