Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wing Laotian generals whose aim was the overthrow of the ramshackle coalition government headed by Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. Jeep loads of paratroopers under the command of General Siho Lamphouthacoul, 28, chief of the military security police, set up roadblocks all over the capital and arrested every neutralist in sight-including Premier Souvanna...
...acrophobia-inducing Metropolitan Opera House, it has a feeling of closeness and intimacy that makes it seem far smaller. Only 550 of the 2,729 seats are farther than 100 feet from the stage, and all but a few of the $1.05 seats at the top have a perfect sight line. Single seats are placed Indian-file along the balconies at an angle that encourages their occupants to lean out over the rail, as though fascinated to be present; again the walls appear decorated with people...
...public image of New York's Finest. Not good, admitted Murphy, and he gave an example. From the public's fear of involvement with the police came the Times's Page One story last month of a woman in Queens who had been murdered within sight or sound of 38 neighbors-not one of whom called the police during the 35 minutes in which the screaming victim was stalked and repeatedly stabbed by the killer. From Hearst's evening New York Journal-American, the Times's story evoked one of journalism's highest compliments...
...much of a surprise. Minutes earlier, Cabot's JV's had crushed Columbia by seven lengths--the biggest margin of the afternoon and a remarkable one for such a short distance. Stroke Galen Brewater's galiant sprit effort--with Columbia lengths behind and nearly out of sight--brought a roar of approval from the crowd lining the shore...
...most largely attended we had ever conducted. But the turn-out did not mislead me. The dramatic manner of the youngsters' going and the way the press played it up brought out a horde of morbid curiosity-seekers none of whom knew either Alice or Eric by sight in life...