Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in the jungle by a six-man Burmese platoon. The Karens outnumbered the Burmese but, taken by surprise, didn't have time to seek cover. Saw Klee Moo and the others just froze and shot at the enemy, raking everything in sight with automatic fire. He doesn't remember how long he stood there, firing madly, but eventually the Burmese withdrew, dragging their wounded with them. It was the first time Saw Klee Moo had encountered the enemy face to face. Asked if he was frightened, he shrugs...
...Georgia native typically slips into the manner of a practiced but informal public speaker, adopting a rock-steady, straight-ahead gaze when thinking--he never loses his train of thought. And not far from sight is a disarming grin, shot through with the confidence imparted by youthful success and good schooling...
...from sight were Harvard's own nationally publicized problems: a decaying tenure system ethically troubling relations between the professional schools and industry, the unrestrained growth and investment of a burgeoning endowment, racial imbalances among faculty and students and an undergraduate core education ridiculed by William Bennett as "Core life...
...massacre has started on June 3, but it has not ended. It was just camouflaged into a more subtle form. the tanks and machine guns may be gone from sight, but an elaborate Orwellian thought control apparatus is now in their place," the speakers said...
Even in the surprising era of demokratizatsiya, the sight of the head of government lobbying in the corridors of the Grand Kremlin Palace is an extraordinary spectacle. But these are extraordinary times for Gorbachev: at stake are not only his reforms and his own political health but also the survival of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...