Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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My duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies...
¶ At Leyte naval headquarters, the Indianapolis had been recorded as having arrived, when in fact she had not been sighted or heard from.
"The question of economic loans . . . should be decided on a broad and far-sighted basis. . . . Let the terms correspond with the facts and the probabilities. Such loans, even though they may appear to some to be unusually liberal, can in the end be helpful not only to the country which...
On the fifth floor, combatants were shepherded into a long, wide column. Thirty store detectives patrolled its edges, like cow hands riding herd on the old Chisholm Trail, eyes alert for mavericks. The column wound through vistas of antique furniture and past paintings of cows grazing in sylvan scenes. Once...
Members of the Hunt in bright-colored coats whose facings identified their clubs (Warwick's black and scarlet, Duke of Beaufort's buff and blue, North Warwick's grey and pink) mingled with Yeomanry regiment officers in white Prussian collars and tailcoated nonhunters. They danced to American...