Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Atlantic, and the slightest change of light brings him to his feet. "Look at that, sir. Look at that patch of sunlight to the right of the fog bank ahead. Did you ever see anything like that?" he roars, his sea-blue eyes glowing at the sight. After 44 years at sea he still acts like a man from the Rockies seeing blue water for the first time...
...treacherous currents and high seas forced him to give up. Last week Tom tried again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...
...Canada-are outside the scope of the plan. They would be helped only indirectly through trade with those who might get loans. But any loans were too far in the future to be of any immediate help. This week, the British Government, convinced that no U.S. relief was in sight this year, is considering cutting its imports by another...
Britons had pinned high hopes on a successful trade deal with Moscow. To help ease the drain on Britain's U.S. dollar credits, they wanted grain and timber in exchange for British machinery. After weeks of tough bargaining, agreement seemed at last in sight...
...conditioners and the movie projector blacked out several times. But luxury-starved Britons cared little for such minor hitches. At the end of two days under a perfect summer sky, a svelte passenger stood by the ship's side inhaling the soft night air. Suddenly she caught sight of a dockside below littered with trucks, bales and dingy trains. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, "how ghastly to see the Southern Railway again...