Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week he almost made it again. Nursing their crippled craft, the two pilots kept airborne for 170 miles-then had to eject near the town of Thanh Hoa, within sight of the water but still over Ho Chi Minh's real estate. Risner landed in a paddyfield, his buddy several miles away. Their squadron mates, circling them, saw both flyers on the ground with no signs of injuries. But by the time rescue aircraft from the carrier Independence reached the area, Risner and his buddy had disappeared, and the beeps from Risner's emergency transmitter had ceased...
Topside keeps a careful watch over the aquanauts' condition. Each morning the doctor on board Sealab takes blood, saliva and urine samples, checks the aquanauts' heartbeats, brain waves and blood pressures. The aquanauts are tested for sight and hearing, strength and coordination. At night each man sits down to an Electrowriter to file a confidential report to the surface on how he feels and, as Bond says, "what stinks about the program...
...Sight. The two-week gain was the largest since stocks rebounded, at the end of June, from their spring collapse. On top of the 12.01-point jump the week before, the Dow-Jones industrial average moved up another 10.98 points last week, to close at 918.95- only 20.67 points, or 2.2%, below its alltime high of 939.62 in mid-May. The two-week gain gave investors $11.5 billion in paper profits, brought the market's recovery to a point where nearly 80% of its May-June losses were erased. The advance was also marked by heavy trading, a good...
...growing confidence that the 55-month-old economic expansion will continue. Last week Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, forecast that the economy will continue expanding through 1966 and said that the top of the current advance is not yet in sight. The Government expects total output of goods and services to rise to $670 billion in 1965 up 6.6% from 1964. U.S. industry seems to share the optimism: the Commerce Department boosted its estimate of this year's capital spending for plant and equipment by 1½% to $50.9 billion...
...from 1949 to 1954), they are horror stories invented by Western propagandists. In her eyes, Communist China has done no wrong, its leaders are the most kindly of men, and she visits Peking every year. "What astonished me most," says Suyin, marveling at Mao's benevolence, is the sight of "old warlords with the blood of hundreds of Communist revolutionaries, decapitated or tortured on their executioners' knives," living comfortable, rehabilitated lives on government handouts...