Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backing the handsome production values are several fine performances-notably those by Jennifer Jones, Heflin and Jourdan. Miss Jones, in her best picture to date, manipulates Emma's moods and caprices with sensitive dexterity. Hardly ever out of sight of the camera, she gives a performance that is hardly ever out of focus, a feat that even the finicky Flaubert could admire...
Then, for two hours, Admiralty officials in London waited anxiously, finally received a terse message: the ship had run the blockade and was already only 40 miles from the Yangtze's mouth. Two and a half hours later, the Amethyst signaled that she was in sight of the Woosung forts. Then she wired triumphantly: "Have rejoined the fleet. No damage or casualties. God save the King...
Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...
...Dewey last summer in payment for Pennsylvania's timely convention support, he had served out the campaign as a sort of front man for Dewey's own strategy board (after the election, he not only admitted this fact, but advertised it). When the Dewey strategists vanished from sight, Chairman Scott was still standing there, pipe in hand, a patient smile on his face, and looking as if this was nothing compared to what he had seen out in the Pacific during...
Muriel Kaplan dared not let the baby out of her sight. She all but gave up her law practice. She and her husband Bernard (once a pro football player, now in a television business) were rooted to their home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Three times one of them sat up all night holding Sandy upright-she seemed to breathe easier that way. Twice she had to be rushed to hospitals and given oxygen. The family physician, Dr. Edwin Raymond, often gave Sandy artificial respiration...