Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when on a peak in Darien, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, after slogging through malarial jungles, emerged in sight of the Pacific. First man to hit upon the idea of an interoceanic canal was Balboa's companion, Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron...
...eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges. People who knew about him began disappearing, also. Two were murdered (one just up the street from Police Commissioner Valentine's home in Brooklyn). Last month a harmless Bronx inhabitant was murdered, apparently mistaken for another...
...acquired 12,000 members. Last year Willie Bioff admitted (to a grand jury) that after this bargain was struck, he received $100,000 as a loan from a prominent producer.* Willie Bioff, receiving a year's salary and effusive thanks from Mr. Browne, then ducked temporarily out of sight...
Volunteer spotters, eyes & ears straining for the sight or sound of high-flying "invaders," flashed word of the enemy approach to the fields where pilots stood ready to gun the 1,000-h.p. engines of 800 quick-climbing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. The Territorial Army probed cloudbanks with searchlights, traced the paths of the invading bombers with the long snouts of their anti-aircraft guns. In London balloon barrage crews, on the alert 24 hours a day, inflated their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters...
...conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...