Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With her son leading the way, Mrs. Gloria Goodman ran across the back yard, down a steep embankment to the edge of a small stream where the boys had been playing. Kenneth was nowhere in sight. But two snarling German shepherds and a stray boxer were. The dogs lunged. Mrs. Goodman kept them at bay with a rake, and Gene scrambled onto the limb of a fallen tree to escape their fanged jaws. "Don't let the dogs get me," he pleaded...
...Goodman sped home in his pickup truck, found his wife hysterical and barely capable of pointing out to him the area where she had last seen Gene. Thrashing wildly down the hill and shouting his sons' names as he ran, Goodman was brought up short by a horrible sight. Gene, his clothes nearly all torn off and his body badly mangled, lay dead in the stream...
...recalls, "I had the most terrible feeling and yelled: 'Come back, come back!' " "Does he often stay in this long?" Stewart asked nervously. As the four watched the distant head, the waves suddenly seemed to boil up around Holt. The Prime Minister of Australia dis appeared from sight beneath the waters about 500 yards offshore. "I knew then that there was nothing anyone could do, even if we had lifesavers," says Mrs. Gillespie. "He was like a leaf being carried out. It was so quick and final...
...thoroughness and detail that constantly awes his subordinates in Saigon. They insist that Momyer knows where every allied unit and road-friendly or enemy-is in South Viet Nam and where every bridge and truck park is in North Viet Nam. His pilots credit him with uncanny in sight into the best flight pattern to avoid flak on their missions north, an insight gained in part through his own participation in at least one of each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance to rescue operations, that are flown over North Viet Nam. He has also made...
...turret armed with either a 40-mm. grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably hit an object as small as a car radiator cap from 1 ± miles away...