Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics reared up unexpectedly at Vice President Nixon's homecoming last week. In the crowd of 3,500 that greeted him at the airport, not a single high-name Democrat was in sight. When Nixon got to the Senate chamber to take up his post as presiding officer. Republicans stood up and applauded, but the Democrats present, including Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, remained seated and silent...
...tear gas. Gradually, as they fell back, about 200 of the Matswanists were pinned against a wall, and would not move. The cops grabbed them one by one and hauled them away in trucks. But when they reached the rear ranks of the crowd, police saw a melancholy sight: 36 Matswanists, including one woman and a child, had been pressed back, temporarily blinded by the tear gas. Crushed against one another, they had been smothered to death against the wall...
...seven rated themselves free of falling-asleep jerks; 25 had them about three times a year; the rest reported increasing frequency up to more than once a week. Finally, Dr. Oswald had some himself. One was accompanied by the sensation of a sudden flash of light, another by "the sight of half a brick hurtling toward my face...
...also one of the least visited. The sere, solemn world of Leptis Magna lies 76 desert miles east of Tripoli on Libya's Barbary Coast, reachable only by primitive bus or costly taxi. There are no guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Co., whose Salem is already a mentholated success, was so affected by the sight of all this clamoring at his door that he took a drastic step for the head of a billion-dollar hierarchy. He insisted on answering his own telephone, gave battle orders that he wants to be flashed personally by even the lowliest Reynolds salesman on every development on the cigarette front...