Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving the details to subordinates, Chou set off on a triumphal tour of Asia with the air of a lord inspecting his domain. India bowed at the sight of the conquering hero who had humbled the West's best diplomats, hailed the generosity of his concessions on Laos and Cambodia...
...Europe, EDC's prospects become dimmer by the month, and no plan to replace it is in sight. Behind this general failure lie some specific failures: the deterioration of France, the growing apathy of West Germany, the deadlock over Trieste...
...oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill. To some, it may just be a pleasing setting to sell insurance...
...every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...
...midst of it all, usually coatless and with shirtsleeves rolled high, Walter Packard worked side by side with his Greek friends. In a few weeks, the dubious villagers who came down each evening at dusk to watch work on the newly flooded paddyfields were rewarded with the sight of tender green shoots reaching skyward. "It was like a miracle from the gods," said one of them...