Word: alight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quote Mr. Alfred Nessler of Schenectady as holding the world's record for keeping his pipe alight without relighting for 87 minutes 55 seconds [TIME...
...should like to state that, this afternoon, I kept my pipe alight, without relighting, for 113½ minutes-witnessed by my wife...
Before they voted, enough Frenchmen to keep freedom alight had asked themselves the same question...
Egypt and Canada. "Let them see the terror we have made," said spread-eagle Major George Fielding Eliot in the New York Herald Tribune. "Let the atomic fires which we shall loose above Bikini set alight the spiritual fires of a common and deathless purpose which shall burn forever upon the altars of a world at peace...
...know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unseeing eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice, in his extremity, of an open window." The episode ended in the deathless friendship...