Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...learned the lesson that in this village we are organized. If one of Ho's men hides his arms, the French soldiers can't tell whether he is a guerrilla or a harmless peasant. But I know them all -for miles around. The Communists we shoot on sight, Mister Reporter. The others, who are only led by the Communists, we try to capture and re-educate...
Bobby had won everything in sight in Europe this year, including the British Open (TIME, July 17). He did not hurry over to the U.S. as soon as the P.G.A. lifted the ban; he waited for the biggest money tournament in the U.S., the ten-day merry-go-round at Promoter George May's Tam O'Shanter course...
...rifle slug ripped through a U.S. embassy fifth-floor window, missing two men by inches and slamming into a picture. Colonel Charles Deerwester, U.S. Air Attache, coolly stretched a string from the hole in the picture to the hole in the window, took a sight along the line. The string pointed straight to a seventh-floor window of police headquarters, a block and a half away. "Damned good marksman," said Deerwester...
Religious intolerance throughout the world seemed to be bothering the Baptists most. With a unanimous rising vote they passed a "midcentury manifesto." "At no time in the history of Christianity has there been greater danger of losing sight of the principles and ideals for which it exists. The danger is increased by the fact that liberty is being denied by those who profess to cherish it. Violation of conscience arises not merely in communistic territories, but sometimes even within the churches themselves. Not only do Communists imprison Roman Catholics and Protestants; Roman Catholics are ready to persecute Protestants, and certain...
...Gratified Public. The sight of crowds stoning the swinging bodies pleased even Dr. Samuel Johnson. Thundered Johnson, in 1783, when there was talk of abandoning the execution procession from Newgate to Tyburn: "No, Sir! ... executions are intended to draw spectators . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" Twenty years before public hangings were finally abolished (in 1868), Charles Dickens begged to differ: "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity...