Word: sightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bailey bill, which empowers local draft boards to shunt men (including 4-Fs) aged 18-45 into essential industries and keep them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
...novel of its kind: in his worthy effort to be scrupulously just, Author Carter often sounds more like an honest broker than an imaginative novelist. Like most just men he sounds best when he lets go-as when Editor Mabry bellows: "They lynch up north, and a damn sight more people than we do. Only they call them race riots...
...will die on the appointed hour within plain sight (opera glasses permit a closer view of the performers' faces). The guns will sound very loud, but it is just a bit too far off to hear men scream as they get hit or hear them yell "sha sha" ("kill") as Chinese soldiers are supposed to do on the attack...
...after 4 o'clock by the time the infantry nears the top. The first sign of the charge is the flashing of bayonets in the Japanese wire and then from the trees below the crest Chinese soldiers boil up on all sides. It is a terrifying sight...
Orson Welles, 29, precocious master of a number of trades-and jack of several more-apprenticed himself to a new one: newspaper columning. This week his first effort appeared in eleven papers (The New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, etc.), all of whom bought him sight unseen. What they got were 1) excerpts from Welles's favorite reading, the Farmer's Almanac; 2) handy hints about cooking; 3) cocksure remarks about foreign affairs; 4) personal chitchat...