Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressagent's overblown dream came true when Ventriloquist's Dummy Charlie McCarthy, whose sawdust quivers at sight of the pretty guest stars on his radio program, proposed marriage to Marilyn Monroe, who said...
...Wide Swath. Native Dancer's easy, businesslike victory earned him a rest. Trainer Bill Winfrey, who has no intention of letting the horse out of sight, will take him to California with the racing stable, put him back in training in December after a precautionary ankle-"blistering" (i.e., tightening). Next race: Jamaica in April. "Anything more this season would be superfluous," explained Winfrey. "He's done all we could ask of him-answered all the questions...
Mookie, out of sight, worked efficiently. Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...Japanese tradition Noguchi has been reworking is that of the 1,500-year-old clay statuette (haniwa). He hopes that the sight of these and other old favorites in new styles will help bring the Japanese around to modern...
...Went to Your Wedding (Patti Page; Mercury). The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since...