Word: alighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like a starved animal. On visiting someone else's garden, she often "separated the sepals of flowers . . . smelled them . . . crumpled the leaves, chewed them, licked the poisonous berries and the deadly mushrooms . . . attracted bees and wasps, letting them alight on her hands and scratching their backs. 'They like that,' " she said. "Like a bacchante after libations," she would stumble along, "nose and . . . forehead covered with yellow pollen, her hair in disorder and full of twigs, a bump here and a scratch there...
...house before which the tank was parked. Says Ferenc: "I was very frightened. Here I was with a 13-year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole street looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave in. The boy and I ran to the chimney...
...political harlequinade, and Republican dignitaries lined up with grins wide enough for tooth inspection as the presidential Columbine III touched down at San Francisco's International Airport just ahead of the fog bank rolling over the San Bruno hills. Dwight Eisenhower, his face ruddy with returned strength and alight with expectation, stepped lightly from the big airplane, faced microphones and told why he had come a day ahead of schedule to the scene of the Republican National Convention. "I suddenly discovered this was too interesting a place to stay away from," he said. "I just read the names...
...radio and television Berman pleaded with Marines, past and present, to come forth with testimony about their own experiences in the Parris Island boondocks. Within minutes the Parris Island switchboard was alight; ten operators went on special duty; by the next night 300 telephone calls and 300 telegrams had been received. In the courtroom, Berman demanded-and won-the right to inspect the answers to a questionnaire on training practices sent out by the Corps after the Parris Island tragedy. The overwhelming verdict of the 27,000 Marines polled: tough training should not only be continued, but in some cases...
Artificial Islands. The company tried an experiment of setting guards to protect small peninsulas where a few birds alight occasionally. The guards shot predators such as foxes and condors, drove away egg-stealing humans. The birds responded at once by accepting the protected peninsulas as artificial islands. They came by thousands, then by millions, and settled down to fishing and producing guano...