Word: sightedness
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¶ The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph reported that 200 robins were sighted last week in a Colorado Springs backyard.
Tall and just beginning to gray, McNiff at thirty-five has spent more time in libraries than many a bent and wrinkled European scholar, and if he has not studied all the time, he has at least kept himself well occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston...
Winant was at Chequers on Dec. 7, 1941, having already learned through Intelligence sources that two Japanese convoys, 63 transports and warships, had been sighted off Cambodia. He found Prime Minister Churchill at lunch time, walking up & down outside the entrance door. The British feared a Japanese attack on Siam...
Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start...
The Pasha had reasons for not being rescued, or at least for not being returned to Europe, Miss Manning implies; he had deserted a common-law wife and several foster children in Germany. That did not deter Stanley's expedition. It left Zanzibar on steamers for the mouth of...