Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue for four hours about what was to be done. They finally decided to write letters to the Cabinet and Parliament. As for 53-year-old President Soekarno, he merely issued a statement confirming his marriage to his new wife, Heriati Hartini Suwondo. Soekarno kept her prudently out of sight, though those who knew said she was a brown-eyed, black-haired Javanese beauty...
...With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite at the Hotel Gloria. Ten minutes after her arrival, the manager, urgently summoned by protesting guests to Suite 901, was greeted with a flying glass of whisky and a frenzied Ava smashing everything in sight. Ordered to leave, Ava soon turned up at another hotel, next day played hostess to the Brazilian press. Said she, demurely: "I'm happy to be here. I've been longing to see Rio all my life." Asked a reporter: "Were you drunk last night?" Replied Ava, sipping...
...lake, the 5 ft. 2 in. swimmer fought against 6-ft. waves, with the distant Toronto skyline now tantalizingly in sight. Her coach scribbled words of encouragement on a blackboard. "You quit and fail all kids," he wrote once...
This week Willie and the Giants looked over their shoulder and saw a stranger scrambling for second place: the Milwaukee Braves. Two months ago the Braves had been out of sight, 15 games back. Then, winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week...
Bright & Brassy. Within sight of Chichester, the Steamer quit for good. Tusek could not work up a head of steam. Polite Britons changed the rules, allowed their opponents to enter a substitute: a bright, brassy 1914 Stutz. Still, the British won almost every event. Even in the Concours d'Elegance, judges looked past the sharp and shiny American paint jobs that dazzled the crowds, lifted hoods, examined brake linings, and awarded the beauty prize to the British. Final score: Britain...