Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry von Zell had Adolphe Menjou at the mike. Von Zell: "Tell them about this great sight here tonight." Menjou: "Tell them? How on earth can I?" But the De Mille cue had been given and, suddenly, the wandering blue kleig lights turned from the flag-draped platform to focus on the concrete opening whence football teams usually come rushing out in triumph...
...long last we have learned the delights of inventory control, first encountered at mid-term. The pace quickens as weary classmen are spurred ahead with the end in sight. Most of us just hit "Thirty-seven more days to go--unk!" with more stress, but Tommy Donovan took things in hand by taking Nancy-- the Foreign Resources grader, blond with freckles known previously only to Kallaus and Trudeau out for a whirl at the Totem Pole...
...over France last May when flak forced him to crash-land. Over his radio he shouted to his mates: "Tell my wife I'm okay!" While Germans hunted for him, he hid in a wheat field. "I heard a German officer give the order to shoot me on sight. Later they brought hounds . . . but the wonderful French people came to my aid. They milled all around the aircraft and so confused the dogs that it was impossible for them to pick up my scent." After dark, the French took him to a farmhouse, gave him peasant clothes and false...
...Lakes. Farther north, the whole irrational Nazi line was being hammered. Smashing into the corridor between the Vistula and the Masurian Lakes was General Feodor Zakharov's Second White Russian Army. It took the Narew River fortress of Lomza in midweek, and advanced through Novgorod to within sight of the lakes, where a 30-year-old defeat could be avenged...
...diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...