Word: bloodshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the six accused Kikuyu tribesmen, one stood out: a paunchy, bearded man of about 50, with slightly bloodshot eyes, who wore a giant bloodstone ring on his left hand. He affected a kind of personal uniform: an open-neck, rust-colored sport shirt, crepe-soled suede boots, a leather windbreaker and dark brown corduroy trousers fastened with a gaily embroidered native belt. In Kenya such belts are called kenyattas, and from his fondness for wearing them, the man had derived his last name. His first name had been of his own choosing, the Kikuyu word for an unsheathed dagger...
Updike acts the tropical tone of this issue with a two-stanza poem exalting the benefits of a hot climate. Although engagingly whimsical, it seems a rather mediocre attempt to imitate Ogden Nash. "Lines for Bloodshot Eyes" by H. S. Zeigler makes a neat observation on three-dimensional movies, "A bastard drama--Cinerama...
Bare Facts. In San Diego, the sheriff's arrest sheet on Ruby Idona Trammell read: face, flushed; gait, staggering; speech, garbled; breath, smelled of wine; eyes, bloodshot; coordination, poor; clothing, none...
...eyes bloodshot and his legs stiff with fatigue, an allied occupation official gulped his sixth cup of coffee shortly before dawn one day last week. Wearily he trudged back to a room where, for 14 hours, the occupiers and West German government officials had sat about a conference table. "I think we've just about got it wrapped up," said...
...seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want...