Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget plan puts the end in sight. The President, whose office makes him responsible for the interest of the whole nation, as against the interest of particular services, has imprinted the stamp of unity upon defense policy. From that act, both economy and a much stronger defense can follow...
Remembering Freddie. In exile in London. Mutesa II last week proved almost as popular in Britain as he became overnight in his own country. Englishmen remembered him from his Cambridge days when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars. His friends called him Freddie, and last week the name caught on all over Britain. Amply subsidized by the British government, Freddie took a suite in the Savoy, bought a hat and slipped out to see his old friends...
...three months in the U.S., however, she wrote: "Respect for the human being and the principles that guarantee his rights is solidly anchored in the hearts of the citizens. With them, one finds a truly democratic atmosphere, and it is this which makes the country so attractive at first sight." She could also rise to such shaky heights of enthusiasm as, "One of the virtues of Americans is that they are never vulgar...
...them. But as the craze spread, no one seemed safe from accusation. Even a minister, the Reverend George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern of the whole colony and a special tribunal came to Salem to hear the cases. It consisted of some of the outstanding leaders of Massachusetts, headed by William Stoughton, Class of 1650, soon to become Deputy-Governor of the colony...
...Retire Park. The organizers of the show, led by Art Critic Sefiora Juana de Mordo, had invited and received entries from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. But as diplomats and officials gathered in striped pants and top hats for the formal inauguration, they noted a strange sight: all the nude statues had been primly covered with white sheets...