Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
...light bulb thrown at the windshield of his fire truck. He was taken to Cambridge City Hospital Sunday night, treated, and sent home. The Fire Department reported yesteday that Shea was back on the job with his eye bandaged, and that he was in no danger of losing his sight...
...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...
Another arresting sight: a primitive duel, staged for the story's climax, between contenders for the rule of the seven-foot-tall Watusi of Ruanda-Urundi, a remarkably aristocratic tribe with features that seem to come straight from the ancient Pharaohs. The Watusi's longtime slaves, the Buhutus, also help Africa steal the show from Hollywood. Before the duel is fought, they throw themselves into a long, exotically graceful dance that far outstrips any choreography ever put into one of MGM's musicals. For moviegoers who don't have much hope of making a visit...