Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Sell. In Dungannon, North Ireland, Auctioneer George Smith started to close a bid, shouted, "Going once . . . going twice," dropped from sight when the floor collapsed...
...Adlai Stevenson can turn an apter phrase than anyone else in sight. It is easier to make epigrams, though, than to make the decisions required of a President. Stevenson does not give the impression of being particularly decisive. He might weigh his decisions so carefully as never to make any; our late foreign policy on China seemed to be conducted in this way. We "waited for the dust to settle" for so long that in the end we did nothing. Stevenson seems to have no clear idea of how far the American people will follow political leadership...
...also took in hand Johnson's own powerful .300 Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight and brought down a ten-point buck deer, at 309 paces, with a bullet right through the heart. Exulted Democrat Johnson: "The best deer killed in this part of the country this season!" Later, spic and span except for a spot of blood on his khaki pants, Hunter Kefauver met newsmen with his feat in his mouth, neatly tied the story in with his White House yearnings: "If I get down and start seeking [the presidential nomination], I hope I have that same sort...
...Thanksgiving, viewers could spend hours watching what seemed the same parade marching endlessly through the streets of Manhattan, Philadelphia and Detroit, while a variety of announcers mimicked each other's intonations of synthetic joy at the sight of inflated balloon-figures, lavish floats loaded with pretty girls baring all their teeth, and determinedly jolly Santa Clauses. Just about every news show on the air scored a mass Thanksgiving Day scoop by showing some 200 banqueting vegetarians in Manhattan eating soybean roast instead of turkey and trimmings...
...continent in the 17th century, it was not love at first sight, as is shown by the case of Roger Williams, who founded America's first Baptist church (though he abandoned the Baptist persuasion within a few months to become a "Seeker" or Independent). He landed in Boston in 1631, having come from England under the impression that he was a Puritan, but almost at once he was at loggerheads with Boston's Puritan clergy...