Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the sight of Jim "Sticks and stones do break my bones, and words hurt like dickens" Everett, who attacked ESPN's Jim Rome on-air for calling him "Chrissy Everett" during a talk show...
...Pulling a Nixon goes to China" is almost a stock phrase in the political culture. It's easy to lose sight of just how important the trip was, both for the course of world affairs and in the American mind. I remember the fascination as the cameras panned across the airport in Peking (as it then was), and Americans peered into a land few of them had seen in a quarter century...
...could have lost sight of that in recent years. Thanks to a public rehabilitation in the media and the kind words of subsequent presidents, the defining event of the 37th presidency was moved from a Washington office building to somewhere in China...
...tribal carnage entered a second week in the tiny central African country, the streets of Kigali were the domain of marauding bands of men hacking down women and children on sight. Severed heads and limbs piled up on street corners, the smell of decay fouling the air. No matter how many bodies Red Cross workers collected, more appeared. Boys carrying hand grenades threatened passing cars, while drunken soldiers at makeshift barricades terrorized civilians scurrying by. In a city without electricity or water, the foolish few who ventured out into the streets to forage for food were too traumatized...
...there is little help in sight for those who want to shoot a little hoop. Wentzell, who coordinates the MAC's gym schedule, says: "We could use three to six more basketball courts...