Word: alight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unconscious" ravings to perplex the reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western world is still alight, but it fizzles up in willful smoke...
...Permitting Russians to enter Cambridge is neither a threat to United States security nor a alight on the importance of Cambridge," State Department officials said. "It would do the Russians good to see a monument to American democratic education like Harvard," they added...
...dimout became darker and dark er, Belgrade's mayor did his best to keep hope alight. When major repairs were completed at one of the power stations, he promised, the worst of the trouble would be over. Instead, last week came a final benighting announcement: all light and power in private houses throughout the entire capital will be shut off every day between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. and for two evenings weekly...
Although undefeated and already crowned national champion, the varsity squash team goes into its match with Yale at New Haven tomorrow a alight underdog...
...long as victory smiled on Hitler's "intuitions," the mastiff barely lifted a paw against him. When a bomb was finally exploded in the Führer's presence in July 1944, he was stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings...