Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th...
...chest of drawers, the pictures on the wall and the sunlight through the window-for the first time in ten years. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant and former wife of the late Russian Prince Michael Can tacuzene, the princess had somewhat mysteriously regained, at least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed I do," said the princess. She spent her birthday arranging the great bouquets of flowers that arrived. "I have flowers everywhere, even in the kitchen," she smiled. The best gift...
...Have you got us in sight?" asked Astronaut Tom Stafford as Gemini 9 dropped toward the choppy Atlantic Ocean under its 84-ft. orange-and-white-striped parachute...
...whole world has you in sight," answered a communicator aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp...
Under Director Gerard Oury, Bourvil's trip follows the standard itinerary of scenic vistas and sight gags, with wayside dalliance supplied by the Italian manicurist and a blossomy German blonde, De Funès stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near...