Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Yasha Djugashvili, now in his thirties, an obscure engineer in Moscow. Father and son do not hit it off. By Mrs. Stalin No. 2 he had a son and daughter: Vasya, now 19, and Svetlana, 14. Good-looking Daughter Svetlana is the apple of her father's eye. The two children go to school, but live in the Kremlin. Joseph's cackling, gossipy mother, old Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, whom Soviet and foreign journalists used to dote on interviewing, died in Tiflis in 1937. She had for several years lived in an apartment in the former palace...
...cynic once defined a gift as a gesture made against better judgment in lively expectation of better treatment. Last week Japan offered foreign nations, especially the U. S., a gift of which she was pretty proud. There was a lively look in her eye as she gave...
...sports neckties of loud clan plaids. But seldom does he wear his own Gregor, for its red and green checks are "too subdued" for his taste. For 19 years Dr. Muncaster taught ophthalmology at Georgetown University, for more years than most of his colleagues can remember he performed eye operations in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. During that time he brought up a half-dozen younger surgeons, built up a legend about his generosity to charity patients. But about jovial, warmhearted Dr. Muncaster there is one dark mystery...
Last week the cat finally jumped out of the bag. In the Episcopal Hospital, Dr. Muncaster successfully removed a cataract from the eye of a 95-year-old patient. Enterprising reporters, seeing a good story, asked Dr. Muncaster his age. As usual, he refused. The reporters prodded Dr. Muncaster's old cronies, paged through medical directories. The result was a good 20 years more than anyone had suspected: age 82. In that operation patient and doctor totaled 177 years...