Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopes. The newsmen were waiting on the liner's aft veranda deck, shivering slightly in the 39° cold, when Panyushkin, hatless and inconspicuous in a long blue overcoat, hove into sight in tow of a Cunard pressagent. When he spotted the group, he fled to a lower deck. The reporters followed, and cornered...
...Miguel, Rosa Faustina, Salvador and Maria Manuel realized it. Weighed down in their heavy rubber boots, with the waves crashing over them, they tried to haul in their nets. But the nets wrapped themselves around the rudders. Men were swept overboard. The boats drifted about helplessly, within sight of shore. In hundreds of cottages along the coast, people cried out in distress. Women huddled in shawls ran down to the sea. Hours later, the first bodies were washed ashore...
...Louis, the world champion, fell backwards and landed on the seat of his purple pants. The crowd caught its breath, and then yelled. At the count of two, Big Joe got up again. But the 18,194 cash customers in Madison Square Garden had seen a rare sight-Joe Louis floored in the first round...
...Under orders to stay away from Louis, Jersey Joe began playing hare & hound. When the fight ended, Joe Louis, instead of staying in his corner, ducked through the ropes. (He explained later: "I fought so lousy that I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out of sight.") His handlers pulled him back to wait for the decision...
...have no tricks in them, only an intensity of understatement which makes him one of the top half-dozen photographers alive. Says he: "After 20-odd years of work I still have great difficulty maintaining enough calm to operate well, at moments when some sort of perfection is in sight...