Word: beholding
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...problem is everywhere to behold-in fly-filled villages, along dusty bullock paths, in the dismal density of city tenements-millions of people trapped in desperate squalor. In the hope of ending all this, India has struggled ineffectually for years to promote family planning. The rhythm method proved too complicated for a 75% illiterate population. To help women keep track of the days of the month, the government devised a handy string of beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception...
...scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai Stevenson, the Maharani of Baroda, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have not progressed much beyond the twist, but Walter Cronkite's variations on the frug are a wonder to behold...
Americans who speak loudly of democracy, justice, and the right of self-determination ought to fell ashamed not to say ridiculous, to behold the spectacle of the Nation's Capital, where...
...Hashim does not look like any kind of an athlete. He is bald, har bandy legs, and is only 5-51/2; his weight in the last 15 years has soared from 117 to 150. But when he starts to move to the court, it is a sight to behold...
...were broken immediatly with the force of the yce, some going out upon the yce to beare it off with their shoulders from the ships. But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force of the yce so rased the sides of the ships that it was pitifull to behold, and caused the hearts of many to faint. Thus we continued all that dismall night...