Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tiny compartment in a type of prison van known as a "salad basket." With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside René's cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off to the hospital prison at Fres-nes. They were in sight of the hospital when one of the guards looked back and saw a man rolling in the road behind. "Stop!" he called to the driver, "you've hit someone!" The van pulled to a halt. The guards leaped out, carefully locked the door behind them and ran toward the injured...
Anouilh pursues his characters with mockery that is a little wistful, with sympathy that is a little malign, now capriciously making romance look grey, now perversely making reality seem gilded. At the end he casually mates the characters and whisks them out of sight like so many folding chairs. He skims over a world where things cut two ways and cancel one another out. He is very civilized, possibly overcivilized: the sort of man who would add s'il vous plaît to the Ten Commandments...
...Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...
When President Leroy A. Wilson opened a special stockholders' meeting at American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Manhattan headquarters last week, a strange sight met his eyes. One stockholder carried a big sign saying: "I protest against the unfair labor practices of my own company." Another waved the message: "I am not interested in dividends that are sweated out of the working people...
...distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat) rolls into sight to accept their cheers...