Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty seconds later, Salton, setting up a breakaway with a steal, passed the ball to Faro, who swam down the length of the pool with no Brown defenders in sight. Harvard 2, Brown 0. The rout had begun...
...harsh sight for a freshman's eyes. In the common room buzzed two printers. In the bedroom sat Zach, frantically typing footnotes. He did not look up from under a three-day beard. Gil had been working on the bibliography at another Mac. Potato chip bags lay open on the bed; random chocolate chip cookies spotted the wood floors...
...taking the Yuppification of Mother Jones in stride. But at the first sight of a four-color glossy cover on The Nation or a Chivas Regal advertisement in In These Times, someone kindly shoot...
...gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine is out-of-order for several days...
...Iran, a vastly different phenomenon was taking shape: the Ayatullah had seized upon Rushdie's book as a flaming spear with which to halt his country's creeping trend toward moderation. Within days, the "liberals" who had seemed to be in the ascendant in Tehran dropped from sight. They had been trying to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the West in order to rebuild the country following its disastrous eight-year war with Iraq...