Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ambition leaped to newer, more dizzying heights. The country needed a strong leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing dictatorship-at least not for Miss Elite's oldest...
Hagman was shown the first script of Dallas in early 1978: it was love-hate at first sight. "There wasn't one redeeming person in it. Even the mother was bad. I was tired of shows in which everybody was so nice and warm and cuddly to each other...
...Fuel costs could go out of sight and landlords would need more than that," Zeckhauser added...
...every day in summer from other parts of the country have been barred until after the Olympics. A million adults were vacationing in the countryside or seashore, and more than a million schoolchildren were off at summer camp. Untold thousands of dissidents and undesirables were being kept out of sight in outlying areas...
...other old Olympics sham is that the Games foster international good will. If logic failed to destroy that idea, observation would do nicely, since the sight of mingling, embracing athletes at the close of the Games is characteristic of nothing in the world or in the Games themselves but momentary (and partly ceremonial) good nature. Observers of the sporting life, like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, had a dimmer view of the Games. Orwell called them "war minus the shooting." The connection with war has always been up front. Coubertin, who argued for French colonialism as ardently...