Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht invaded Poland. (This drew the wrath of many of you for presuming, you said, to call it a world war.) As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. at War, dropped World War and, when the end was in sight, introduced International as the correct repository for news of the peace to come, of UNO, and of all the events which would now be strictly world news...
...technique was far subtler than Viskniskki's. When Hoyt moved into Bonfils & Tammen's famous "red room" at the Post, no screaming headlines but a modest front-page story recorded his arrival. Staffers met Hoyt and his wife at a city-room reception, liked them on sight. Muttered one old hand: "It's like a warm breath of spring in an icebox...
...started a limited program of improvements. First step is the installation of Very High Frequency radio ranges (VHF) on the airways. Their ultrashort waves can punch through most electrical disturbances, keep pilots from getting lost and slamming into mountains. Like television, VHF transmission is limited to the line of sight, necessitating a great many stations. But within two years CAA intends to blanket the country with...
Last to Go. Firing as fast as she could load, the Houston bored in, throwing salvos into an enemy which attacked from all sides. In the confusion she lost sight of the Perth, picked her up again in the glare of star shells just before the Australian went down. The Dutch destroyer, battered and crippled, was beached. For another hour the Houston fought on alone...
...never experience, and find hard to believe until it infects them also. We toured this depressing city one cold bright morning in a Chinese Army truck. In one street we came upon ten blackening Chinese or Japanese corpses, a fortnight old and partly gnawed by dogs. Grisly as this sight was, it was more easily forgotten than the sight of Mukden's ravished factories...