Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the roof of the world, last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
...year after the Kingfish was killed, the Carters sold out their Louisiana paper, moved to Greenville. As a kind of personal protest against Munich, Editor Carter enlisted in the National Guard. He lost the sight of his right eye in a training-camp exercise in Florida (he walked into a palmetto...
...wanted to challenge the supposition. Sweeping the floors in A, B and C cell blocks, he watched Guard Bert Burch walk the gun gallery behind steel bars. The unarmed floor guards were out of sight. Guard Burch, on routine patrol, passed on along the gallery into D block...
...came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak eyes, and contracted "a tubercular swelling" on his neck. With his "tattered clothes and broken boots," he looked like "a ragamuffin . . . a shuddering sight for Gaelic gods...
...Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while as it is now, the law controls little aside from sight-seers and boy scouts...