Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud carrier Saratoga, 800 yards away, remained in sight for about two seconds. The geyser of water almost touched her starboard side. Then spray blotted her from view. The geyser spurted up to 5,000 feet and there gave birth to the familiar mushroom-shaped cloud which rose 4,000 feet more...
Guests at the many cocktail parties tinkling daily in the lakeside chalets (almost all of them are open this year) miss the familiar sight of Prince Rupprecht. The popular dean of Bavarian society has been something of a recluse since the illness of his wife. But handsome Emmy Göring and her plump, delightful daughter Edda have been much in evidence. Emmy planned to keep her life simple this summer, but she has relented sufficiently to give many an intimate, dazzling dinner party for visiting officers...
...less than three months after Crosby bought a portable and began an ear-aching routine of constant listening, the Trib decided that his five-a-week columns were too good to keep, signed him for September syndication. Said Managing Editor George Cornish: "He turned out to be a damned sight better than I had any right to expect...
King in a Palace. The preaching becomes a harangue only at the end. For the rest, there is a long, slow-moving narrative, often vivid, of daily life at Summerhouses farm. The nearest town is a five-hour trip by packhorse. The nearest neighbor lives out of sight, over a ridge...
...tripped lacadaisically down the steps of Widener. These past few hot days had drained him of every bit of enthusiasm. The very sight of the be-goggled grinds sitting four by four on every side of the Widener, tables filled him with a feeling of nausea. He had tried to alleviate it by going to the Radcliffe sector, but the scenery there wasn't much more inspiring. Every time he looked up, those Reading Room walls seemed to be closing in on him, and he could hardly wait for the hourly bells to toll, which for him was the signal...