Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris also seemed a bit odd, at first sight, to Standard Oil Heiress Mary Caroline Pratt when she met him on a blind date. "He was a great, gangling thing with a cap and plus fours," she recalls. "All I could do was stand and giggle." Four years later they were married...
Green Carpet. The rumble of motors was heard up the valley. The Assam Rifles came smartly to attention, and newsmen and photographers scrambled to positions in the muck as a caravan of jeeps and trucks came into sight. In the van was a station wagon that pulled up in the muddy street before a carpet of 35 green tarpaulin ground sheets leading to a thatch-roofed rest cottage...
...South Africa, when in the course of a minor scuffle an angry Indian merchant pushed an African boy's head through a shop window and gave him superficial cuts. Passersby spread the word exaggeratedly: an Indian has killed an African. That night Africans began attacking every Hindu in sight. Next day they burned homes, looted stores, clubbed men, women and children to death, raped girls and hurled them into burning houses. In three days 1,229 people were killed or wounded, 1,532 homes were damaged or destroyed...
Ornament, once equated with tattooing, now reappears in building after building in the form of screens, grilles and even finials. In place of reflected skyline and cloud patterns bouncing back from vast glass slabs, architects are tucking glass back and out of sight, concentrating on giving back to architecture the play of light and shadow. Symbolism and historical evocation are suddenly staging their first comeback in over a quarter of a century...
...that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...