Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite the effects of two earlier races, something important is happening. There is something honorable in four tired runners' pushing themselves through the two-mile relay fast enough to insure a victory over Yale. And a finely-tuned hockey team whirling in on the Yale goal is an inspiring sight...
Then, in the first moments of dawn, Glenn saw a fantastic sight. At first he thought "that the capsule had gone up while I wasn't looking and that I was looking into nothing but a new star field. But this wasn't the case. There were thousands of little particles outside the cabin. They were a bright yellowish-green, about the size and intensity of a firefly on a real dark night. As far as I could look off to each side, I could see them...
...capsule had been flashing a misleading signal to the ground. But John Glenn could not be certain that he was safe until he saw that the parachute which would lower his capsule gently into the Atlantic had opened. Said he the next day: "That's probably the prettiest of sight you ever saw in your life...
...lined the streets, repeatedly holding up the motorcade by the sheer press of their numbers. At Potsdamer Platz, Bobby glared through the strands of barbed wire that are part of the Wall in that section of divided Berlin. On the East Berlin side, a few Vopos scuttled out of sight. Otherwise, East Berlin appeared empty-and dead. "This," said Bobby, echoing the reaction of every first visitor, "is even more shocking than I imagined it would be. Unbelievable." Driving on to City Hall Plaza, Bobby spoke to another 100,000 West Berliners. He gave them plenty of assurance. "An armed...
When the U.N.'s 16th General Assembly opened last fall, it seemed headed for disaster. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was dead, and in sight of his empty chair on the Assembly podium, the Russians fought week after week to destroy the post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half...