Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nine months of bitter fighting, the end of the Philippine campaign was in sight. Even a few Japanese could see it. In three days 38th Division troops took 46 prisoners, probably a record for any equal period in General MacArthur's campaigns. But the rest of the Japs fought doggedly...
...bazooka was borrowed and Charlie noticed that the sight was broken. A runner started back to battalion headquarters for a new sight, but the attack could not wait. With two scouts on his flanks to protect him, Charlie and his bazooka loader moved forward, the men of A Company trailing cautiously behind...
...spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired twice and missed both times. That brought his day's score down to 28 hits in 30 shots. When he reached the dam Charlie said that next time he wanted a bazooka with a sight...
...Rangoon. Well might he recall the words he had uttered in October 1943, after his expulsion from Burma: "Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe. . . . We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course of action...
...Will Be First? The small number of cars in sight for 1945 dulled the competitive urge among automen to be first. The market was so much bigger than expected production that the exact date of production would not affect the prospect of sales. But some manufacturers were better prepared than others to swing into peacetime work...