Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of some repute are arrested and tried," said Goodman. Coffin, the day before the Pentagon march, urged outright violation of the draft law: "If they are now arrested for failing to comply with the law that violates their consciences, we too must be arrested, for in the sight of that law we are now as guilty as they." When he was not immediately arrested, he called the Government "derelict in its duty." As for Spock, he told the reporters swarming through his East Side apartment that he hoped "100,000, 200,000 or even 500,000 young Americans either...
Brown's sloppy play and disorganization was especially apparent during the penalty, and Diercks wasn't challenged until only 20 seconds remained. At that point he ended a goal mouth flareup by grabbing the puck as well as forward Bill McSween's leg and the end was in sight...
Flubdubs & Mollycoddles. Name calling is a time-honored sport among Americans where their Presidents are concerned. George Washington was called a crook and the "stepfather of his country." It was said of John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
...reason that Tubman seems so indispensable to some Liberians is that few possible successors are in sight. The most prominent candidate: William "Shad" Tubman Jr., 34, Harvard-bred member of Liberia's most influential public relations firm...
...montages of thoughts and objects are inserted, reaffirming Resnais' flair for visual stream of consciousness. Where Hiroshima Mon Amour used mostly flashbacks, La Guerre Est Finie's inserts are mostly flash-forwards: fears and premonitions of Diego, the middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning...