Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also mean that great weeks of crisis had passed without any great accomplishment. No strike emergency law was yet on the books; it seemed that no permanent law would get there soon. There was no going along with the President in Congress; no thoughtful labor policy was yet in sight. The labor question was still being begged...
Sovereignty for What? It doesn't seem to matter much now whether a truce [with the Communists] will come or not. Real peace is nowhere in sight. The military prospect is predominance in the field by the Nationalists, and guerrilla disruption of communications by the Communists...
...areas surrounding Cambridge. But although this canvassing turned up a number of places, it soon appeared that the College-going veteran was not overly enthusiastic about taking trolleys and busses to meet his 9 o'clock classes and was unsure of the geography of locations out of sight of the Square. Few of the opportunities made available by this search were snapped...
...judges sent many a state prisoner to the Shelby County Penal Farm, a self-supporting agricultural institution so lush, so green, so magnificently stocked with prize cattle, prize horses, prize hogs, prize mules and chickens that many a west Tennessee farmer scrubbed his eyes in disbelief at the sight...
...chance of being beaned with a beer bottle at a nightclub, of getting beaten up in a mysterious street fight or simply being slugged by Memphis police, as were two overenthusiastic C.I.O. organizers in 1937. Memphis newspapermen did not forget one election night in 1928, when every reporter in sight was thrown into jail for threatened breach of the peace, a handily unbailable offense in Memphis...