Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...green-eyed 16-year-old named Farid, who wants to become a doctor when he grows up, is sitting in the back seat of the car, explaining how to stone Israeli soldiers. "You stay behind walls, follow the soldiers, throw and then dodge out of sight. Always know where you are, and have a way to escape in mind...
...took me a while after my first Sox season to realize that, for the team's fans, disappointment was the rule rather than the exception. At the time, in my youthful zeal, my fist would punish a nearby chair, the floor or even my own thigh at the sight of a Sox miscue. After the season, I almost could not finish Sparky Lyle's The Bronx Zoo, which painstakingly recounted and reveled in the 1978 tragedy...
...just as Mandela is seeking something from Americans, Americans are seeking something from him. Politicians hurry to pose with him, community leaders draw inspiration -- and status -- from his proximity, longtime antiapartheid activists take satisfaction from the mere sight of him. For a sometimes dispirited American civil rights coalition, Mandela provides, as he has before, a rallying point and common cause. For the many blacks who have begun to call themselves African Americans, he is a flesh-and-blood exemplar of what an African can be. For Americans of all colors, weary of their nation's perennial racial standoffs, his visit...
...deny that AIDS victims deserve all the compassion and help that society can muster. The latest statistics presented at the conference show that the toll is still mounting and the end of the epidemic is nowhere in sight. At least 600,000 Americans are infected with the virus, more than 136,000 have become sick, and some 83,000 of those have died...
...piece was full of elusive truths," recalls Fulghum. "Elusive because they had been in plain sight all the time. Everybody had tripped over them in kindergarten -- without realizing that they were words to live...