Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake of meat decontrol, steak suddenly appeared on butchers' counters - at $1-&-up a pound. Lard and other meat by-products edged up toward 70? a pound. Dazed by the sight of so many rare items, the people went on a two-day buying spree-a mood reflected by a six-point jump in the Dow-Jones industrial index.* Then they hesitated...
When war came, Burroughs got the job of making Navy Norden bombsights and handed it to John Coleman. He worked out a system of mass production (previously believed impossible because of the half-millionth-of-an-inch tolerances). Said Coleman of the famed secret sight: "Its only secret . . . was extreme accuracy in manufacture...
Bigger & Better. After four drab war seasons, the football weekend was back. The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and see-in a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur coats...
From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
...cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat. In the early hours of the morning they gave it up and disbanded. The next day communication was re-established with the Hannah Szenesh, which had run into engine trouble just off the territorial water. She would try once more tonight. The operation was set up again...