Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterwards, when the Generalissimo strode out into the sun, a tide of joyous humanity engulfed him. The people jammed the streets on each side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...
Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, prewar armchair strategist (The Defence of Britain) who forecast a "very tame" war and believed in the Maginot Line, came out in the London Daily Mail with a tip on how to tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...
...Several minutes later I was outside. All around, I found dead and wounded. Some were bloated and scorched-such an awesome sight, their legs and bodies stripped of clothes and burned with a huge blister. All green vegetation, from grasses to trees, perished in that period...
...bugaboo in television's dream of a coast-to-coast network is the formidable fact that the world is round. Until television beams are bent, reception will remain limited to line-of-sight distances which seldom exceed 50 miles...
Showdown. At week's end, embattled Tom Braniff saw relief in sight. The Mexican Minister of Communications ordered C.M.A. to open all its airport facilities. He ruled that the fields should be considered public property, exclusive to no one. Fighting Tom Braniff had won an important point-at least for the moment...