Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
...those barracks a few days ago and it was all I could do to stand the sight and smell of the parodies of human beings who inhabited them. They were alive by instinct only and by instinct they almost knocked me down when I produced from my pocket one pitiful chocolate bar in answer to a plea of a prisoner for food. At the sight of that morsel of food these filthy, spidery human beings were galvanized by a single impulse: to get a crumb, just a crumb of something to put into their stomachs. I saw the barracks again...
...their way to the front. Said one: "First we came on 20 dead Japs. Then, farther up the trail, we came to a place where there were 40. And when we got up where the soldiers were, there were more than 100 dead Japs. It was a beautiful sight...
Typical questions: What is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Why are American children so badly brought up? What is the U.S. equivalent of Britain's prestigious Crown? Like their predecessors, most of the visitors were struck at the sight of adults eating dry cereal ("horse food,") and drinking milk ("Put some brandy...