Word: sightly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...imagine how difficult that is," says one proctor of several years. "Some people write the names on a piece of paper. Sometimes you can do it by sight. In the case of one party last year, students were quietly slipping down the fire escape. It's chaos. It's a difficult expectation...
...Rather, they should consider other arguments for why music is a crucial part of a complete education. It's hard to deny that we, as humans, have a natural affinity for music. Just take a group of toddlers and put on some light, happy music. It's a beautiful sight. Two-year olds will get up and start moving this way and that, and you'll likely hear peals of laughter or those sounds of joy that toddlers can only make...
...shut the country down until the outpolled President capitulated. The protest movement seemed to start slowly, barely sputtering to life in Belgrade, where garbage piled up, shops pinned up signs reading CLOSED FOR THEFT (of the election), and roving bands of protesters occasionally clashed with police. But out of sight, in the rural towns, resistance was surging. For the first time, the ordinary workers, who had made up the faithful bloc of Milosevic's supporters for years, turned out against him. These were the backbone of the nation, the weather-beaten farmers, the downtrodden shopkeepers and, most crucially, the stolid...
...while, Milosevic remained out of sight, whereabouts unknown. His suburban palace looked eerily empty as it stood guarded by a single soldier. Rumors flew that the boss was holed up in a bunker in eastern Serbia or already on a cargo plane to Belarus. In fact, he was locked away, as ever, in his private parallel universe, brooding on his next move, no doubt egged on to defiance by his uncompromising wife Mira. Serbs were so used to his prodigious talent for survival that they feared he still had one more trick up his sleeve. From his balcony overlooking...
...particularly memorable moment, he held the crowd transfixed with an extended shrill noise, the omnipresent backbeat echoingly nonapparent. The crowd waited desperately for the percussive release, and when it finally came, the place went crazy. Bodies flailed all over the place. The sight of hundreds of maniacal clubbers was truly astounding...