Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells you to write about a rainbow, he's lost sight of the basic reason for writing--communication," Barbara Tuchman '33 told a group of girls in Barnard Hall last night...
LUTHER, by John Osborne. unleashes thundering theater and shaky theology around the man who brought about the Reformation. In the title role. Albert Finney is a sight to behold...
Meanwhile, about the only thing that can bring a smile to an admiral's face these days is the sight of Navy Quarterback Roger Staubach...
...terrific roar, and the line vanished from sight behind a spouting column of black dust and smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with the Islamic holy city of Medina. Lawrence of Arabia reduced most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina...
...penniless father, a Georgia tenant farmer, raised eight children on peas and corn bread and dreamed of educating all of them. Pitts arrived at Negro Paine College in 1934 with $13 in his pocket, worked his way washing dishes. After two years he went blind. At length he recovered sight in one eye and quit college to "keep school" in Milan, Ga., for $47.50 a month. He saved money, but his father borrowed it-$50 here, $100 there. One day, urging him to finish college, his father produced all the "borrowed" money. So Pitts earned his degree...