Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played every summer since 1930. Most of the audience that gathered in the white, green-shuttered concert hall were summer residents in the Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk...
...nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...
...prove that there was. Instead of scraping the doors, as others had tried, he mixed a special solvent to wash away the dirt and corrosion of centuries. Last week, while the Baptistery choir sang and long trumpets blared, the curtains over the doors fell away. At the sight, women fell to their knees; men wept. After all the years, Ghiberti's doors glistened and gleamed once more as he had made them...
...result of her labors, TIME'S morgue is now the repository for a mound of such neat notations as this one: "12,000 city street cleaners daily sweep up, pick up and otherwise put out of sight about 5,000 cubic yards of stuff ranging from dead cats to a load of TNT, and including wallets, personal mail, laundry bundles and an occasional keg of beer, as well as the more routine paper and just plain dirt (an average 112 tons of soot cover a square mile of the city each month...
...seemed that "the whole canine population of France and Belgium" had collected to be evacuated, too. Troops took to the water on homemade rafts-and it was a sight to see one such raft, made of wood and an old door and manned by a French officer and two Belgians, equipped for the voyage with a very old bicycle, two tins of crackers, and "six demijohns of wine." In the main, French soldiers, naturally chary of seawater, refused to wade out to the boats (one officer even signaled: "I have just eaten and am therefore unable to enter the water...