Word: sighted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sight of Senator Ted Kennedy ambling down the walkway on Inauguration morning was a heartening image. The paterfamilias of the Kennedy political dynasty had billed the campaign of Barack Obama as his own crusade, perhaps his last given his battle with brain cancer. But Kennedy's image of apparent health was shattered during a celebratory lunch that took place in the Capitol's Statuary Hall in honor of the new President...
...snowflakes, made exquisite drybrush watercolors* of bees' honeycombs in winter. Thus he scratches at the mask of nature, attempts by imitation to expose her identity. For Wyeth well knows now one poignant tragedy of man: that he can never know all his world before it vanishes from his sight...
...Gaza NO END IN SIGHT With the battle in Gaza well into its third week, Israeli troops deepened their incursion into the Palestinian territory, entering the suburbs of densely populated Gaza City and engaging in street fighting with Palestinian militants. The offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 950 Palestinians and 13 Israelis so far, has hardened attitudes on both sides: numerous civilian deaths have led to an outpouring of support for Hamas among Palestinians in the Fatah-controlled West Bank, while Israelis have united behind their military's efforts...
...camembert or jambon simply do not abound.After an inordinate number of blocks, I could sense the blisters begin to burgeon on my heels. There I was in the City of Lights, which I had always planned to eat my way through, without a boulangerie, patisserie, or marché in sight. But I quickly forgot why I ever believed such joints were necessary when I discovered Mecca itself: La Maison du Chocolat. Too hungry to focus on row after row of ganache, truffle, or caramel, I proceeded directly to the macaron counter and promptly ordered an individual-size framboise from behind...
...risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” Killed in battle, Guevara never got the withered forehead or silvered temple Gardel sang about. But perhaps he was lucky to go, for he was spared the sight of the utmost lack of love his brothers-in-arms, and those who still adulate them, have come to show the world. What marches on in Cuba is thus little more than apocryphal memories in support of hypocrisy...