Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition Haitians. Under the OAS Banner. The U.S. plans to "proceed in company with the OAS," said President Kennedy last week, and would consider sanctions on Haiti only if present negotiations failed. A task force, with U.S. Marines aboard, maneuvered in the Gulf of Gonaïves within sight of Haiti's dun-colored mountains. Helicopters from the carrier Boxer could put them ashore in minutes. Yet the U.S. is anxious to avoid any unilateral intervention that would inevitably revive memories of the 1915-34 U.S. Marine occupation of Haiti. If intervention is required-to protect foreign nationals...
...allow more small-unit sallies and night operations to challenge the Viet Cong's after-dark supremacy. In their impatience with Diem, some exasperated U.S. officials wish that he could be replaced by a more flexible man. But they admit that there is no other leader in sight. The regime tends to exaggerate its successes and minimize its failures, insists that its airborne attacks have finally "disheartened" the Reds and "caught them off balance." Many combat-seasoned U.S. advisers think that this is hardly enough. "Hell," says one, "if all we did was to keep them off balance...
Marguerite shows up on the chaise again, surrounded by sophomoric sycophants, her elderly ducal paramour in the background. Enter Armand. With no gravity-defying leaps, but pedestrianly, and with a disconcerting knee jerk, he moves in on Marguerite. It is love at first sight...
...British thriller has a built-in beaut of a scientific gimmick: a visual recapitulation of some eerie experiments in "sensory deprivation" conducted recently in Britain and the U.S. Object of the experiments: to find out what happens to people who for long periods forgo the use of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, weight and direction...
...sobbing, when his replacement arrives. The departing postmaster walks slowly away from the village, calling to the girl to say goodbye. She appears, carrying a heavy pail of water, and looks silently at the ground, tears streaking her face. The last thing he hears as he passes out of sight of the village is the voice of the child calling: "Master, I have brought you the water." But it is her new master that she is calling...