Word: binoculars
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...somebody cried. "Where? Where?" a chorus responded. One of the astronomers gave directions, as though to an out-of-the-way restaurant: Begin with the Pleiades, a glittering cluster of stars known as the Seven Sisters, then look south to find two middling bright stars, then move half a binocular field to the northeast...
...Assembly speech. Reagan's visit to the demilitarized zone took him closer than any U.S. President to the North Korean lines. He helicoptered to the Liberty Bell camp, where U.N. forces guarding the historic truce village of Panmunjom are based. At a forward observation post, he had a binocular view of North Korean military positions. Returning to Washington Sunday, Reagan could reflect on a trip that seemed successful precisely because of its lack of high drama. Quiet cementing of relationships with allies lacks the theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships...
...fighter, whose distinctive silhouette was instantly recognizable. Similarly, a crew was sent over the side of the destroyer U.S.S. Eaton to paint out the ship's name. Yet the vessel's outline could be clearly identified as that of a U.S. warship; at binocular range, even the raised lettering could be read...
Certainly anyone can respond to recycled banalities masquerading as conversation, an edgy concern with appearances, the nose sniff of gossip and the binocular gaze at just who is where on the money-and-status escalator. Ayckbourn has honed this knowledge to hairbreadth comic precision...
...enjoyed a formidable mythological reputation. Not that the more than 130 species distributed throughout the world are aware of it. As Editor Burton establishes in this remarkably illustrated survey, owls are not philosophers but predators, perfectly equipped for their occupation. They have front-set eyes that give them exceptional binocular vision. Their heads rotate 270 degrees. Their hearing is extremely acute, partially because on most nocturnal species saucer-shaped disks of feathers around their eyes also gather sound. Owl plumage is soft, which also helps: it enables them to fly silently toward their prey. The perfect Christmas gift for those...