Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell sat in the End of the World and appreciatively ogled Tanyiki Delamour, 24, a Haitian exotic dancer whose specialty is the "voodoo drumfire dance." "Don't get too close; you'll set me on fire," Powell warned. His usual constant companion, Corinne Huff, was nowhere in sight...
...Here's your chance," Toastmaster George Murphy told the 2,000 diners at the Washington Hilton, "to sit in the presence of the next President of the U.S." Well, Lyndon Johnson was nowhere in sight, and neither were Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy. But just about every Republican aspirant for 1968 was on hand. The $500-a-plate affair was billed as a "G.O.P. Victory Gala" to celebrate last November's comeback, but it was more of a preview for next year. It was also the most profitable single event in the party's history, netting...
...make them work. It is no fun to be on the opposite side of a question from him. He throws the whole energy of his being into the advocacy of his views and the support of his friends. But at the end one finds that he has never lost sight of standards and values which transcend the heat of conflict and transitory differences of opinion...
...world, past grade school age, flies paper airplanes? Nobody, it seems, except a legion of physicists, engineers, pilots and otherwise normal adults who begin folding up at the very sight of a plain piece of paper. What coaxed their secret hobby out into the open was the Scientific American's tongue-in-cheek announcement three months ago that it would sponsor the First International Paper-Airplane Competition. The paper-plane buffs took the offer seriously, so much so that the magazine found itself inundated with 10,941 entries from 49 states and 26 foreign countries...
...districts already choked by industrial air pollution, traffic cops counter the effects of auto-exhaust fumes by breathing bottled oxygen kept at precinct stations. Speaking of the market-though it could apply to the atmosphere as well-Nissan's Kawamata says that "the ceiling is not even in sight...