Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunting on a large Austrian estate, he accepted; he shot bustards there. The great bustard (Otis tarda) is Europe's largest land bird and bears a superficial resemblance to the turkey. It has a phlegmatic temperament and is tardy on the takeoff. Hardly anybody needs a telescopic sight to hit a bustard...
Generalissimo Chiang: "I do not suggest that the millennium is in sight...
Though the French delegation's statement also left a cautious door open, it may overnight have become reconciled to the desirability of a Force by the amazing sight of a Rightist underground plot that almost succeeded (though the attendant fanfare makes it possible that the danger was not so close a thing as advertised). In any event, the big precedent of a strong world police force seems for the first time something more than a vague wish. If nations are indeed merely individuals writ large, the states of the world may soon be learning the delights of having...
...rest of Chevigny's summer scripts, he says, will be in the tall-story tradition. Tall stories come naturally to him: he is a native of Missoula, Mont., on the edge of Bunyanland. In 1943, after a successful career in West Coast radio, Chevigny lost his sight. He learned to dictate his scripts, which he once punched out on a typewriter, has since sold 550 scripts for the Morton Downey show, 97 for the U.S. Treasury, 15 free-lance scripts, five short stories, two articles. Betweentimes he wrote a book, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Yale University Press...
Biographer Stryker's strip job, for all his courtroom ardor, is disappointing. At such length that tedium is the payoff, he uses conventional history to sketch in the political background for Erskine's cases. Thus he and the reader lose sight of Erskine for pages at a time. The mighty barrister emerges as less a man than a disembodied voice making noble utterances...