Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cries of "piece in our time" echoed from the assembled throng at the sight of renewed British-German relations...
...morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel; her influence pervades the film at every turn...
...that, Harvard sympathizers may be spared the sight of the track team's fall from grace. Last winter the Crimson was overpowering. For the first time since 1958, it defeated Yale indoors (60 to 53 1/2) and it swept to the Heptagonal title by the margin of three tenths of a point, 43 1/2 to Army...
...that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense of awe" at the sight of the shimmering Taj Mahal in sun and moonlight. "I have seen pictures of the Taj," she said, "but for the first time I am struck with a sense of its mass and symmetry." The Indians, who crowded in everywhere for a glimpse of her, were also overwhelmed. Said...
...years that followed, villagers became accustomed to the sight of the hooded friars padding about on their melancholy missions, but police lacked proof of their actions. One wealthy villager who refused to listen was shot to death by three masked gunmen. Gardener Lo Bartolo was arrested as an accomplice, soon was found in his cell hanging by the bed sheet-victim either of suicide or of preventive murder by the Mafia, who feared that he would squeal. Evidence against the friars finally came to light two years ago, when police discovered a typewriter in Father Vittorio's cell that...