Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race crisis in Chicago is not yet in sight. Says the Urban League's Executive Director Edwin C. Berry: "We have a possibly explosive situation here. My messages from the beer gardens and the barbershops all indicate the fact that the Negro is at war. All the ingredients of race riot are here...
...Shoot on Sight. At week's end, as their delegates still wrangled in Baghdad, both the Kurdish rebels and the Iraqi army prepared for the worst. The government proclaimed a dusk-to-dawn curfew around northern Iraq's oilfields, pump stations, airfields, and military depots, warned that violators would be "shot on sight." Iraqi troops blocked all roads leading into the Zagros Mountains. Nearly three-quarters of the army was busy building concrete pillboxes and fortifications covering the mountain passes...
...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
Only Memorial Hall surpasses the standard garishness of Victorian taste. Guides on one of the sight-seeing tours now conducted through Cambridge claim that Harvard wanted so much to erect a great and lasting tribute to its Civil War dead that University officials asked every leading architect in America to contribute one detail to such a monument, put them all together and erected Memorial Hall...
...picking corn. He was watching. "It was not love at first sight," recalls Stuart Fuller-Sandys, 50, of his first glimpse of Margaret Dube, 22. "Love came later like a deluge." There was only one serious complication: she was black, and he was white. On the front pages of every Southern Rhodesia paper last week was the fairytale romance of the rich, widowed white rancher to the penniless darky daughter of one of his squatter tenants. It began in 1961, and had Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons...