Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back Row. In 1954, Alben Barkley came out of retirement and went back to Washington as the junior Senator from Kentucky. But he was an aging man: his sight was failing; he was tired. Last week he went to Lexington, Va., to keynote the traditional mock Democratic National Convention at Washington & Lee University. Before a capacity crowd in the university gymnasium, he again stood up to give a scathing, ultra-partisan Democratic speech that, largely because of the humor in it, would not offend even the most partisan Republicans. Looking back through history, he credited all the good...
...shapelessness with cotton. Out of both prudence and necessity China's people followed suit, and women's clothes became almost indistinguishable from men's. Those who had chi pao (long gowns), like their slinky, slit-skirted sisters in Hong Kong and Singapore, put them out of sight...
...Elvis Aaron Presley, a drape-suited, tight-trousered young man of 21, and the sight and sound of him drive teenage girls wild. All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters, fighting off shrieking admirers, disturbing parents, puckering the brows of psychologists, and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation...
...month of suspense while 41-year-old Victor Riesel's sight flickered and died, 48 New York detectives, the FBI and, in rotation, most of the 60-man staff of U.S. Attorney Paul Williams worked steadily to track down his attacker. The reward for his assailant mounted to $45,000, but there were still no results to set against the grim medical bulletin. The bylined Riesel column, which has kept on running in 192 papers, will continue to be written by Riesel's right-hand man, Alton Levy, and his secretary, Miriam Goldfine. But Riesel himself will...
...made off with the heart of the British common man-something Khrushchev had badly wanted to take home as another trophy from his diplomatic safaris. Through most of the visit, B. & K. remained remote and formidable figures in big black cars behind a 21-motorcycle escort (a sight hitherto unknown in Britain), but they soon sensed in the public's cool reserve that they were not being officiously sealed off from the kind of hysterical triumph they had scored in India...