Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern end of the island was within gun sight for Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division, which had driven a wedge that had almost split the Japs into two pockets. On the flanks the 4th and 5th Divisions were grinding the enemy down...
...sight; time has almost run out for the Japs. More than 70% of the barren little island is held by the marines, and only a miracle can bar complete occupation this week...
...sight was something to belay an admiral. The King's rugs covered the steel deck. The King's gilded chairs gleamed against the grey turrets. On the forecastle deck, the King's tent stood in the somnolent heat. On the fantail, the King's sheep bleated in an improvised pen, making royal problems for the swabbers...
...indicator efficiently, a navigator needs occasional glimpses of the ground or, over the sea, a celestial sight, for checking wind drift. But the gadget is sometimes surprisingly accurate by itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...
...first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic checks in disappearing...