Word: alighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eagles was forced to alight...
Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...
...like squirming black fish streaming in & out from the shore. Destroyers were laying down smoke screens to help the landing craft approach safely. The screens mingled with clouds of smoke from the burning land, where shells had spread fires in the dust-dry countryside; everything that could burn was alight...
...pilots reported that railway yards and at least one illuminating gas storage tank were "were alight...
...Boston, when the carolers came on Christmas Eve, the great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...