Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia also reserves the right to put in a claim, based on the 1820-21 voyage of Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, a Baltic German in the service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
Finally we broke away. In the street I looked up to see the whole family crowding the window and waving, leaning out and waving until we were out of sight...
...perhaps the most frightening sight in the East is Treptower Park, Russia's war cemetery. There is not a religious symbol in the place, just green lawn, statues, and the sayings of Stalin carved into huge stone blocks...
Agatha Christie could not have thought of a better opening scene. When the English butler entered the luxurious bedchamber on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue to awaken his master one morning last week, he saw a ghastly sight. Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master-46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodger-bound, gagged, strangled and quite dead. The body was dressed in midnight-blue silk pajamas, and the room was a picture of studied disarray...
...foreground are the Italian bolidi-Alfa-Romeos, Ferraris, Maseratis-here and there a Mercedes and a Gordini; much elegant metal and, no doubt, to fanciers of horsepower, a sight prettier than slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into...