Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...
...Couples in a Dance." Well known to every first-year biology student, the paramecium is a one-celled, slipper-shaped little animal which lives in ponds and puddles. In the one-celled kingdom the paramecium is a giant, just visible to a good, sharp, naked eye. For three years Dr. Herbert Spencer Jennings, distinguished University of California at Los Angeles zoologist,* has been watching a thousand generations of one species, Paramecium bur-saria, under his microscope. Last week he told about his paramecia's mating habits...
Said General Paul: "A commissar is a maid of all work, a democratic priest, an army doctor with his fingers always on the pulse of the Brigade." More significantly he added: "You are my third eye...
Quick to spot dramatic detail, General Paul's third eye was in a position to pry into everything from the love letters of the Internationals in the trenches to the secret sessions of the staff. Most of what he pried into, Regler got into his novel. For back of the eye was a mind burning with a deep hatred of fascism (publishers report that Regler was once named Nazi Public Enemy No. 19), a keen sense of the historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous...
This should be neither bar nor safeguard to most young men: conscripts can be blind in one eye, partially deaf in both ears, minus one big toe or two little ones, and still be technically eligible...