Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most stupefying sight in all the restive excitement that grips Algiers is the enthusiasm of the Moslems. They have come out of the fetid alleys of the casbah, descended from the hills, flocked in from the countryside around Algiers. Every evening in the vast parking lot in front of the Government General Building they join hands with Europeans in a "Friendship Chain" and sing the Marseillaise. Terrorized for almost four years by the F.L.N. on one hand and the Europeans on the other, the Moslems of Algeria-particularly in the cities-have greeted the promise of integration with immense relief...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...
...countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...
Observant and polite but studiously non-committal, six Russian "student editors" yesterday continued their five-day stay in the Boston area with a call on the Governor and some sight-seeing. Today's round of visits includes an appearance on WGBH-TV this evening...
...Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty...