Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, the police let the crowd huddle in a stairwell near the courtroom door, where plainclothesmen snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union...
...propaganda showroom; and some offices in the center of town: these are what the leadership has to work with. It isn't much, and where many people cannot read and no one has a choice of how to vote, it tends to fade out of most people's sight...
Molded Antiques. Bill Krawski, 28, comes from a family of Connecticut tobacco farmers, but five years ago he decided to harvest barns instead of plants. He has stripped 120 barns, including enough to restore the entire Old Mystic Seaport Village. But Krawski sees an end in sight, reckons that there are only about 100 more tobacco barns in Connecticut to be reaped...
Electric Slippers. Seki began his career by making a telescope from an old magnifying glass and a lens he found in his father's pawnshop. He was stunned by the sight of craters when he first turned his telescope on the moon, and has been star-struck ever since. Beginning his observations in 1950, he patiently peered through a variety of homemade telescopes for eleven years without finding anything new. He was on the verge of surrendering and concentrating on his $150-per-month job as guitar instructor when he spotted his first new comet in the constellation...
...actual return to public performance is fogged with conjecture. He still hides from reporters, and no plans have been announced for concerts beyond an appearance at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall next week at a memorial concert for Woody Guthrie. But whether he is in or out of sight, Dylan's power as a trendmaker and prophet for the college-age crowd is sure to grow with the appearance of John Wesley Harding...