Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight of the fans and boosters, college basketball presents a sometimes sordid, often tragic scene of young men -- some even functionally illiterate or learning disabled -- trying desperately to keep up with their work. Some, unable to read an exam, must be read the questions aloud and respond with oral answers. Some were wooed by recruiters who could not make good on promises of tutors and extra study time. And some have found themselves befriended by unscrupulous agents and professional gamblers...
...across the subcontinent and then out over the Indian Ocean. When the planes landed four hours later on one of the 1,200 coral atolls that make up the Republic of Maldives, hundreds of elite Indian troops charged out onto the tarmac, rifles at the ready. But the mere sight of the Indian planes had struck panic among a band of mercenaries trying to bring off a coup d'etat against the government of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and they quickly fled in boats. Three days later, commandos from an Indian frigate forced the high-seas surrender of the mercenaries...
Fast-rising prices in the art market have inspired a hot new trade in phony prints. Hundreds of people have paid as much as $4,000, sight unseen, for "limited-edition" originals. The FTC has sued Federal Sterling Galleries, a telemarketer in Scottsdale, Ariz., for allegedly peddling photographs of artworks as authentic prints by Salvador Dali...
Though the U.S. inspection system is among the most comprehensive in the world, it depends on methods -- sight, smell and touch -- that are suited to the hazards of the turn of the century. "At the time of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the problems were visible -- lesions and rat hairs and dirt," explains Diane Heiman of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, a Washington consumer group. "But today we've moved beyond that to invisible hazards, like pesticide residue and bacteria and microbiological toxins...
...probably someone with dyed black hair who concentrates in Literature or Social Studies, espouses bisexuality because it's politically correct and works part time for an organization devoted to research on Central America. The mere sight of such a person is enough to make me cringe, because I know what's coming next: suddenly this perfectly inoffensive conversation will shift to an intense examination of the phallologoandrocentric nature of the universe as it relates to Derridean theory and...blah blah blah...