Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best about being president of the American Federation of Labor is the opportunity it gives him to ride on trains. Mild, deaf, ministerial Bill Green travels 20,000 miles a year on them, but he never tires of the cushioned delights of Pullman bedrooms, is never bored by the sight of flying landscapes. To Bill Green, an old and often lonely man, the railroad ticket is a badge of success, a heart-warming reminder that he is in demand as a speaker, has a salary of $20,000 a year (plus expenses) and a place in the ranks of Prominent...
...sweated in a coal mine for 23 of his 77 years, and who could remember when organized labor led an almost furtive existence, it was a thrilling sight. In October 1947, the A.F.L. had 7,600,000 members-45,000 of them gained in the last twelve months. It was rich and powerful and often spoke to the public in the rich basso of full-page newspaper advertisements...
...faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
Discipline is self imposed by a large Student Council which includes membership from all the graduate schools. The formal right of this body to expel a student is rarely tested, but delinquents who have suffered its condemnation have frequently just dropped out of sight...
Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...