Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window ledge Mrs. Little found a numbed bird and revived it. The bird's name was Margalo. With Stuart it was love at first sight. Later he saved Margalo's life by bravely shooting the family cat in the ear with an arrow. Margalo saved him from a garbage scow into which he had accidentally been dumped. Then Margalo disappeared. Stuart left home quietly, got himself a tiny automobile and went in search of her. And so he drives abruptly out of Author White's slim (131-page) book-one of the most lovable little boys (despite...
...little to his credit that it stirred man's ultimate despair more than all the rest of his calamitous handiwork because it seemed to transfer responsibility for his fate from God to man. Presumptuous man, who in all his pryings into matter below vision and into space beyond sight had never been able to answer the first question which the Voice from the Whirlwind put to Job: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...
...White House. She greeted all 400 guests with enthusiasm, fumbled nary a name. Introductions over, she worked hard to keep everybody milling in the huge state dining room while a red-coated Marine band played familiar airs. There were high points. A matron squeaked: "My hero!" at the sight of Admiral William D. Leahy; a Texas colonel called Mrs. Tom Connally "Honey," and dozens craned to see Ike Eisenhower...
...faint traces of Prince Matchabelli perfume. The battered furniture, handed down for cash from generation to generation, has been junked for double beds, ruffled curtains, flowered drapes and potted plants. Hot plates glow busily under home-cooked dinners. Dartmouth plans to erect a lattice fence to hide the disturbing sight of bras and panties drying on the clothesline...
...corneal operation is "a relatively simple procedure," according to Manhattan Ophthalmologist R. Townley Paton, one of the bank's founders. Chief requirements are a skilled surgeon and good eye material to work with. One eye will restore sight to three others because all the corneal tissue can be used (the cornea covers the whole iris), but each transplant needs to be only about average pupil size (see cut). Bandages come off in three or four days; stitches are out in a week...