Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspects never slept in the same house on successive nights. Many had their photos in an "Arrest on Sight" mug file at police headquarters. To avoid detection on Singapore's teeming streets, they spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
...recent years, Abd el Krim has been confined to his home in a Cairo suburb, suffering from rheumatism, failing sight and heart disease, and listening grumpily to news broadcasts of a new world he disapproved of. Last week, at 81, the Lion of Morocco and survivor of 200 battles died quietly in bed of a heart attack, leaving behind one widow, eleven children, and a homeland saddened because his bones were laid to rest in a graveyard in alien Egypt...
...columnist for Lord Rothermere's London Evening News was wroth. "I come home tired and brooding over the Common Market. I switch on the telly-and what do I see? Two spiders mating. And as if that isn't enough. I am thereupon treated to the sight of two newts doing the same thing. Now love-making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David Archibald Gore...
...Larry Doyle, 42, married and the father of three, now lives in Dallas. "The only difficulty I have at all," he says, "is a limited amount of movement, up and down, of my right foot. Everything else is fine-my sight, and the use of my hand and arm for any purpose-writing, carrying, anything." One night last week Larry was honored at a dinner sponsored by the Dallas Sales Executive Club as one of the city's top salesmen...
Common English. Neither Britain nor any other European nation had a basic objection to the sight of France and Germany burying the hatchet after generations of enmity. But it seemed a futile gesture at best; the Common Market itself seemed sufficient means to weld the two old foes in common cause. In any case, the treaty, which pledges both governments to cooperation in defense, foreign policy, education and youth affairs, seems more sentimental than serious. Asked what precisely the treaty added to existing Franco-German ties, a top French official said vaguely, "It depends on what develops." Skeptical newsmen joked...