Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from acquiescing to last spring's angry squeals about the nightly barring of the Wiggles-worth east gate, College officials have reacted with unprecedented violence, and slammed the portal shut once and for all. Nowadays, it is a common sight to see pale Freshmen pressing their noses between the shiny black bars, their eyes all agoggle at the lush greenery of the yard within. Many is the discouraged student who finally recrosses Massachusetts Avenue, to wile away the hours in Felix's, and later is found run over behind. Widener with a copy of the Daily worker in his already...
...time for party lines. For two years, when I wasn't fighting the parties in the pursuit of their party interests, I was trying to get them to work together. Well, the Social Democrats won the election, and I, whom every man on the street here knows by sight, I lost my position as a city councilor. I have given up politics now until the Germans realize that only by working together can they rebuild this country. It is our greatest tragedy that we have not brought forth a single able man in politics...
...study, slept in a bathtub, learned a correct academic style that won him several medals. After that came a two-year scholarship in Paris. He angered his sponsors by returning to Brazil with only a single small painting. Portinari explained: "I can paint nothing at first sight. I must wait and let imagination work...
...Truman's popularity with U.S. voters stood at 54%, down only 3% from his late May level; 58% of union members approved of him, 61% of farmer voters were still for him. As far as 71% of registered Democrats were concerned, Harry Truman was the only nominee in sight. Closest contender: Henry Wallace, with the approval of 12% of the Democrats who were polled...
...fisherman, there was only one who counted. He was a big (6 ft. 3 in.) Royal Marine named David Cecil Boyes. Minnie and David met at a party one, night in September 1944, when David had shore leave from H.M.S. Berwick. For Minnie it was love "at first sight." As for David, he loved her "more than the service...