Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issue distributed in Japan was August 27 with General MacArthur on the cover. And copies of the next issue (Sept. 3) were being printed within sight of the moated Imperial Palace in Tokyo four days after the 1st Cavalry Division entered the southern outskirts of the city...
...feel of home and peace was more than this. In the cattle country it was the excitement of rodeo time: the smell of corrals, the sight of a squealing bronco making his first, lurching jump in dusty sunlight. To many an American it was the lovely, casual look of a yellow fly line falling out on running water and the first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across...
Right back in the groove after getting out of the Army, 132-lb. Ben Hogan, the man with the delayed wrist-lash, still could belt a golf ball out of sight. On the fairways, he never made a careless shot. His ability to concentrate was hard to believe. Once again he was a man to beat on the pro circuit...
...Spiraling Budget. What Minister Plate had to say was that the Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year...
...price ceiling would badly needed cheap housing be built, a wild inflation in building be averted. Without a ceiling, a $6,000 house could easily sell for $12,000 in the present shortage. Furthermore, frantic bidding for prices of scarce materials would soon boost their prices out of sight, and further jack up building costs all down the line...