Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure the dollar-shortage sickness, the only remedy in sight was a cut in imports of U.S. goods; to many the cure seemed worse than the disease...
...girl, she shocked Roman society by going about the streets unchaperoned. She was a mathematical prodigy and wanted to be an engineer. But on the day she registered at the University of Rome, she came across a tattered beggar carrying a sickly child. Though she could never stand the sight of blood, Maria decided then & there to become a doctor. She was the first woman ever to receive an M.D. from the University of Rome...
...drove in," we said and did a fast U-turn. He was still scratching his head when he dropped out of sight. Which brings us to the question of why Virginia was penalized three times for delaying the game. Just think of yourself in quarterback McCary's brogans during those huddles. When the boys asked him what the next play was, he couldn't very well come out and commit himself in such an environment of lucid confusion...
...Then in the ninth inning of the fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...
This spring, Pat O'Brien began to write about a new topic-his illness. From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property...