Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Score will put on his uniform, work out his talented left arm for the first time since May 7, when he was struck on the right eye by a bullet line-drive hit by the Yankees' Gil McDougald. For a while doctors had feared for Score's sight. But last week Dr. Charles Thomas made an encouraging prognosis: "My reports on Score are good. I don't believe he will have any trouble with depth perception...
...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...
...ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches (he had forgotten his survivor's kit). Dave Steeves was, in fact, some 11,000 ft. up in the Sierra-a dangerously low altitude for a transcontinental...
...spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...long. Assistant Director Paul Vullier explains that female okapis suffer in captivity from "deviation of maternal instinct." If they do not starve their infants by refusing to let them suckle, they trample them to death. And what pushes them into their fiercest outbursts of antimaternal deviation is the sight of strange humans, especially photographers...