Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...
...just at the point where the assassin's first bullet struck the President; Connally's double wore the actual jacket the Governor had worn on Nov. 22, and its torn fabric still showed a bullet hole. From its assassin's eye view, the camera first showed the line of sight between the window and the car obscured by an oak tree (the Warren Commission was careful to note that the amount of foliage on the tree was about the same at the time of the experiment as it had been on Nov. 22). But once the car moved away from...
...iron invalid bounced back again, by last week was able to speak halt ingly, write with his left hand. But it seemed unlikely that he could ever resume the full duties of President, and the scramble was on for the succession with no clear winner in sight. Among the most likely: former Christian Dem crat Premier and center-left architect Amintore Fanfani; Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat, a Social Democrat strongly in favor of European unity; former Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni, now national president of the Christian Democrats...
Then, over crowd-lined streets, he headed downtown for conferences with local Congress Party leaders, after which he appeared on the Maidan, a big, grassy plain in the heart of Calcutta, to give a crowd of 350,000 an opportunity for darshana - a sort of blessed contact through sight - and, more important, a major political speech plugging his own new brand of neutralism for India...
Last week Jimmy Cassiday conceded: "Well, dad, I guess I lost my interest in bullets." Thanks to the operation and to the thick glass lens he will wear, like that of an elderly cataract patient, he will not lose his sight...