Word: sightedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home and abroad mounted with the very lack of successful contacts with the enemy-and, above all, as the U.S. commitment of men began to burgeon. The confusion was unnecessary, but it was undeniably true that leaders both in the U.S. and in foreign lands had begun to lose sight of precisely what the U.S. wanted in Viet Nam, and why America was there. The peace offensive contained the answer...
...Pretty Sight. Her chosen time span begins in 1890. In Britain, gentlemen still peered out of their club windows at passing carriages and told each other "what a pretty thing it was to see a lovely woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled...
Columbia was overhelming in foil, taking sight of the nine matches, mostly with substitutes. Captain Rick Kolombatovich beat Art Baer 5-2 for Harvard's only point in foil, Kolombatovich lost 5-2 to New York Collegiate Invitational foil champion Jeff Kestler...
Harvard's hockey team put up a spirited fight against Boston University last sight, but found out that hustie and pluck are as substitute for teamwork and sheer talent. The Crimson lost, 4 to 2, to the best hockey team in the East...
...helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey. "I knew I couldn't call in a strike," said Yunck soon afterward. "And that was when I got the fifty caliber." Commented a surgeon: "He's going to lose his leg because he was too compassionate...