Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love to fly. I am part of every plane I fly," said McAllister. Of his duties in Viet Nam, he said: "This is a damn sight easier work than Korea...
Steel Ahead. It was evident last week that Harold Wilson was certainly an odd sort of socialist, one able to beguile a French autocrat, a German burgher and a millionaire Texan. Actually Wilson is more Methodist than Marxist, and even if he wanted to nationalize everything in sight, he would be hard put to find many sizable industries that the British government does not already have a hand in. It is a fact of British life that after 13 years of Conservative rule, one of every four houses in the country is owned by public authorities, 90% of British students...
...shot at; he is now so hardened to it all that he can take a snooze in a car that is being chased by rednecks. Who is Moses' revolutionary mentor? Marx? Mao Tse-tung? No, it is Albert Camus, who preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren, "to recognize that you have to struggle for people, and at the same time-if it's possible-you try to eke out some corner of love or some glimpse...
Finally we are told that the audience "laughed light-heartedly" at the sight of violence, stealing, and murder, thereby proving the picture a failure. Laughter can signify nervous comprehension, too; the truth, the pain and anguish, the cruelty of life brought to focus, can be too much for the audience--and apparently the critic, also. Robert Coles, M.D. Research Psychiatrist...
...exterminate sparrows, one of the "four pests," (they eat many times their weight in grain each day) and Peking did its part in a one-day all-out effort. Early in the morning, the whole population started making noise and shooing sparrows. Every-where in the city, the sight of a single sparrow on a rooftop or in a tree was the signal for a tumult of shout, gongs and tin cans...