Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glowed red-hot as the temperature rose to 3,000° F. The astronauts were enthralled. "The prettiest part of it all is re-entry," said McDivitt afterward. "We saw pink light coming up around our spacecraft. It got oranger, then redder, then green. It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen." At 100,000 ft. the blackout ended, and McDivitt's voice came through. "We're five-by-five up here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute eight feet in diameter billowed out to stabilize...
...Soviet view of history has always been that it exists only in the eye of the beholder-or at any rate, the holder of power. To fall from favor was to fall from sight-to become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed. But the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin seems determined to give Russians a more honest glimpse of some tarnished heroes of the past...
...Victory in Sight" focuses on the last bloody chapter of the war: the final European offensive and Allied victories in the Pacific. Presi dent Roosevelt is inaugurated a fourth time; his children James and Anna appe< in a special sequence...
...roads are lined with their rusting skeletons. Birds in the surrounding bush fall silent when they pass, and drivers of lesser vehicles pull over to the side in terror. In all of West Africa there is no more frightening sight than a herd of wide-open mammy wagons, stuffed to the rafters with merchants, housewives, babies, calabashes and live chickens, careening toward the next town at full stampede...
Hope & Challenge. Nor is there any more common sight. Mammy wagons, named for the bright-robed market women who ride them and driven by tough freewheelers appropriately known as "maulers," are West Africa's principal means of travel. Usually ancient pickup trucks fitted out with wooden roofs and benches, they hide their precarious mechanical condition under garishly painted hoods. Their cabs often bear a motto full of hope ("God Never Sleeps"), African fatalism ("No Condition Is Permanent"), challenge ("Let Me Try Again"), or simple pious appeal ("Amen...