Word: eye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style eloquence in Arabic, Spanish, French, Persian and Hebrew. Peres and Eban are now in line for top government posts, and Ben-Gurion makes no secret of the fact that he would like to see one-eyed General Moshe Dayan, the man with the eye patch, his successor...
...stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln, behind Disraeli (who is worst afflicted of all), seems avoided by the birds in spite of being near a tree...
JESUS OUSTED BY CHURCHES IN MERGING. Under this eye-catching headline the Austin (Texas) American reported the labor pains of a new denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...
...Boston, quiet Bill Russell practiced his weak shooting eye, said nothing, and waited for the big day when the Warriors came to town. Last weekend in the Boston Garden, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain met for their first official contest in the N.B.A...
...again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort of thing again," Chairman Oren Harris said: "I think you have a great future ahead...