Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy heavy cruiser, a one-year-old veteran of 15 Pacific engagements, the President left San Diego Naval base the day after his Fourth Term acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as the big grey ship plowed westward. Just out of sight of Hawaii's majestic Diamond Head, squad rons of pursuit planes came over, and the blue water below bubbled with the scurrying of PT boats...
...news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then he coughed spasmodically. A hemorrhage began. When his wife, came, summoned from Mass, he waved her away to spare her the sight of his suffering. He was unconscious in a few minutes. In a few more, his dragging breathing stopped...
...After the birth of my second child the sight of my figure enclosed in a utility corset nearly paralyzed me. True, it caused a certain amusement to my family, but I didn't feel funny, only ill and unhappy...
...From time to time Matteotti's ghost, started up to haunt Mussolini. From time to time people involved in the murder talked. But they never really told anything. Nevertheless there was a perennial rumor that the Corriere Italiano's editor Filippelli (who has since dropped out of sight) had written a full confession. Only one photostated copy of the confession existed...
...fright the mules never got used to was the sight of an elephant. The fright was mutual. When elephant met mule there was pandemonium-trumpeting and braying, sometimes a hysterical stampede...