Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juicy job of reapportioning California's legislative and congressional districts until 1961. Pat Brown knows that his job and his position with Californians will suffer if he spends all his energies on presidential campaigning, and he also knows that there is no other California Democrat in sight to take over...
...President appoints a fact-finding board to assess the effects of the strike, and the prospects, if any, for solution. If the facts indicate that no solution is in sight, the President orders the Attorney General to go into a U.S. court for a "cease-and-desist" injunction to stop the strike. The Attorney General may seek contempt-of-court action if either side violates the injunction...
...harp uneasily on an old German proverb: "The pitcher goes to the well until it breaks." To replace Mischker, the insatiable Roden enlisted his 22-year-old son Jürgen, but on Jürgen's second night out with Father, a motorcycle cop, suspicious at the sight of so young a man driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound to a close, he was clearly headed for the kindest fate...
...over the whole field of physical, moral, and intellectual philosophy ... it dealt with the individual, the family, and the state; with law and freedom, with practical problems of economics and government, with property rights and slavery, and with questions posed in generation after generation concerning belief ... it never lost sight of a central purpose, which was, in the words of one early president, '(to teach) men their duty and the reason for it." Pusey then asked, "Where in our college has this course gone...
Night & Day. Oscar figures that interesting stripers bite mainly at night near high tide. By day, the sight of seagulls gliding over the water at close to stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...