Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Super-Carrier, Too. Vinson was, in fact, firing without bothering to sight in on the target. Actually no service had much to complain about. Under the committee bill there would...
...keep saying as trainer Jimmy Cox mopped the eye with wet towels. He found out 20 minutes later on the emergency operation table at Massachusetts General Eye and Ear Infirmary. It took surgeons two hours to pick particles of plastic out of Busch's left eye--and save his sight...
...down from Wright Field in an F-80 jet fighter, he found the Kanawha River at Charleston crowded with a motorboat regatta. Chuck roared down the river, 20 ft. above the boats, at almost 600 m.p.h., shot under a highway bridge, did two slow rolls, and zoomed out of sight...
...Gosh . . . Whew." After that, Belle's life really began. It was a life of European tours, of chats with kings and diplomats ("Ah, the grandeur I played around with"), and the formidable sight of old Pierpont eating his breakfast ("Gosh . . . whew! It was huge"). But mostly Belle's days were spent in her library, bustling in brocade along the corridors ("Where the hell's The City of God?"), rustling among the Rembrandt etchings or answering letters from scholars and collectors all over the world...
...Nelson's fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone...