Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Something. I named it Do Something. Either my selection never got to Mr. Chenery or else his taste is bad. He named the damn horse Sir Gaylord. Well, you can see the kind of luck I have. Sir Gaylord went on to win everything in sight. If Mr. Chenery had listened to me, I'd have been naming race horses right and left by now. I've never forgiven Mr. Chenery for this, so I practice on his horses all the time. He has one now called Cicada's Pride. That one is by Sir Gaylord...
...high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched on the National Assembly building, on their way pushing down hastily erected metal barriers and hurling them into a canal. The police, backed by fire trucks, were at first stunned into inaction by the unusual sight, but later scuffled with demonstrators...
...legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic...
...happens almost every day: a policeman catches sight of a suspicious character, stops him and frisks him. But doesn't the Fourth Amendment specifically bar "unreasonable searches and seizures?" It does indeed, said the Supreme Court last week, but the operative word is "unreasonable." Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Chief Justice Warren held that the Constitution permits a policeman to accost an individual if there is good reason to suspect that he is up to no good, and to search him for weapons if there is good reason to suspect that he may be armed...
Westmoreland, radiating the virile confidence and irrepressible optimism that gave him the look and sound of a winner, had wanted badly to leave with victory in sight. Yet even as the Senate in Washington was unanimously confirming his appointment, Communist gunners were raking the South Vietnamese capital with Soviet-made rockets and mortar bombs. It is not as the winner that he bows out of Viet...