Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passers-by saw girls screaming at top-floor windows; then blasts of fire blotted them from sight. Moments later some of the same figures could be seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
Observing Man. In Belgium, the Prime Minister got honorary doctorates from Brussels and Louvain Universities, and at Louvain, twice destroyed by invading Germans, he saw students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...
...which gave the great Wagnerian soprano her chance 13 years ago. Said Johnson: "Personally, I think it is a great loss to opera and this company that Mme. Flagstad has not returned. But if you had 7,000 subscribers who blindly agreed to take operas sight unseen at the beginning of the season, and 3,000 of them you knew had a prejudice against Mme. Flagstad's returning, would you take her back?" The answer, to Johnson, was obviously...
...that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears masks or wigs which he designs himself. During the war, Kreutzberg danced a few recitals in his native Austria, but mainly, he says, tried to keep out of sight: "I just appeared, then disappeared." The Germans finally put him in uniform-he spent a year swabbing hospital floors in Italy. When he saw a chance, he fled, and surrendered to the U.S. Army. After three months in prison camp, he was released. He feels he has lost time to make...
...price ceilings, set many a housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...