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Word: sighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes that it will take Trieste Skipper Lieut. Commander Donald L. Keach to guide his strange craft to the bottom, unexpected currents may carry her out of sight of the sunken submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanography: The Search for Thresher | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Savoring their new prosperity and enjoying once more the sight of long waiting lists, the ship lines are returning to an old and irritating habit of peak-season travel: overbooking. In the somewhat unrealistic fear of sailing with empty cabins because of late cancellations, at least one line has been double-selling several hundred berths-just the kind of behavior calculated to drive passengers back to the airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: The Atlantic Swell | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Soon state and local cops, along with FBI agents, were scouring Mississippi for clues. They found the assassin's weapon-a Springfield rifle mounted with a new telescopic sight-in the honeysuckle patch across from Evers' house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life & Death in Jackson | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies and fancy barbers. Papa Cobb takes it pretty hard, but his highest loyalty is to his stomach. Peering into the refrigerator, he recoils at the sight of all the foil-wrapped leftovers, cries: "This ain't an icebox, it's an aluminum mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such a Business | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Argentina. The bride of the film is an innocent young woman seduced and then abandoned by her lover (Francisco Rabal). Her coffin is the room in which she shuts herself forever, a prisoner of pride. Twenty years later, her lover finds what is left of her. At the sight of him, she dies of shock. At the sight of her, he shrugs-and casually seduces her innocent young niece (Elsa Daniel). As the film ends, the story seems to be beginning again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Skeleton in Tulle | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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