Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week in Havana's grim La Cabaña fortress was Rolando Cubela Secades, 33, Fidel Castro's former chief student organizer and gun-slinging bullyboy for the University of Havana. His crime: plotting to assassinate Castro, by means of a high-range rifle with a telescopic sight imported from Spain...
Uniformity in Sight. What Kaufman and his fellow judges liked about the new rule was that it was not only a giant step forward from M'Naghten but also a viable solution to the problems in Durham. Instead of "knowing" the difference between right and wrong, the defendant is now subject to the subtler requirement of "appreciating" it. Similarly, proving the act a "product" of the disease now becomes the more reasonable task of showing that the disease resulted in a loss of "substantial capacity" to obey the law. "We do not delude ourselves in the belief that...
Soon after, he obtained a good spectrum from the quasar and, like his colleagues Sandage and Greenstein, he was puzzled by the sight of unfamilar spectral lines. But after staring at the spectrum for six weeks, Schmidt had a wild, almost desperate thought. Three closely spaced spectral lines on his photographic plate resembled hydrogen lines. But they were not in the blue segment of the spectrum where they belonged: they were superimposed on the red portion instead. Could they actually be hydrogen lines that had shifted to longer wave lengths...
...kisses it with ardor until, flung so carelessly on the storm of instinct, she swings into fantastic dancing, calling to the others, 'The marriage ceremonial, the marriage ceremonial. See me dance at my marriage ceremonial.' Never up, down or across creation could there be a lovelier sight." An unobtrusive miracle is accomplished; the ceremony of innocence is not drowned...
...counseled caution in Arab threats of war against Israel, taken steps to end the war in Yemen and toned down his blasts at the U.S. Perhaps the strain of moderation was too great, for last week he was back at his old propaganda stand, happily blasting everyone in sight...