Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a troubled one. Just a century ago, more than 100,000 of the fearsome predators roamed the West, helping themselves to the abundant prey and vast territory they found there. Early settlers, who saw the wolves as threats to both their cattle and themselves, generally killed them on sight. Ultimately, the government placed a bounty on the wolves, encouraging hunters to shoot them, trap them and even burn them alive. Before the middle of the 20th century, Canis lupus was wobbling on the edge of extinction...
Last year during reading period, I was wandering through Cabot Science Library, now the only twenty-four-hour library on campus and a safe haven for insomniacs like me. I spotted a student slumped over in his study carol, emitting a rapidly escalating series of snores, a common sight in an all-night library. Then I saw the slogan printed on the back of his T-shirt: "Sleep Is For The Weak." Next time I'm up all night, I'm going to bring a camera. Dara Horn's column will resume next semester...
City officials were preparing for the storm as well, with the possibility of an icy morning rush hour in sight...
...There's a feral quality in a lot of the good citizens of Weegee's New York. You catch it in the gleaming eyes of the kids at a crime scene in Their First Murder; these are children who are thrilled, or at the very least intrigued, by the sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma Twiss Epstein, a nanny accused of killing a child in her care, whose weird serenity is the precursor of the affectless stare that...
...effect is stunning: a seven-year-old in lipstick and a borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the lad; Ludo blithely pursues his obsession. Of a school chum, he says, "We're going to marry when...