Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next time. But I do mean emphatically to suggest that constant communication among foreign affairs professionals about what they believe to be their common concerns may sometimes put them quite out of touch with reality. They may become so absorbed with diplomatic move and counter-move that they lose sight of what motivates the individual players. They may even come to believe that foreign policy controls domestic policies, rather than vice versa...
...public lecture halls, on television, in the papers -- everywhere. We have heard all the arguments, pro and con, a thousand times. We have tread the path of the same argument countless times and in each case derived the same answer. All else, previously beautiful, has faded from our sight. We have become disillusioned as a nation because we hear nothing but Vietnam -- day and night. And in addition to all this ugliness and loss of beauty -- it's damn boring. George S. Rousseau Instructor in English
With Harvard ahead, 14-11, on the strength of Howie Freedman's 6-2 decision over Eric Chase (177), it seemed that victory was in sight. But Paul Padlak (191), wrestling an extremely cautious match, lost a 3-1 decision to Julian McPhillips on a take-down with four seconds...
...Analytical Lag." Settling into a witness chair before Proxmire's Senate-House Joint Economic Committee last week, Fowler flailed away with unaccustomed vigor at almost every target in-and out of-sight. As for economists who have lambasted him and President Johnson for first not raising taxes and now for asking that they be hiked, Fowler accused them of "suffering from an analytical lag that has them currently applying their calipers to conditions of a year ago." He rapped "bank letters notable for consistency if not accuracy." He scoffed at "herd-thinking, Monday-morning quarterbacks," and skeptics...
...chuckles from other airlines six years ago when it put 28 aging, piston-engine Constellations in shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington. When passengers found they could drop in and fly on a guaranteed-seat, pay-on-the-plane basis, the other lines nearly dropped out of sight. Eastern now has 79% of Boston-New York business, compared with about 18% for Northeast (which is be ginning to phase in jets on the route) and a minuscule 3% for American...