Word: alighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot cross, which had been soaked in gasoline, was set alight on the side lawn of Percy House, a dormitory. Several students reported seeing someone running from the area covered in a white sheet about 10:20 p.m., the time of the incident
...flight from this barbarism, the two sisters alight at an English country house in the early 1950s. Grace soon slips into a conventional marriage. More independent, Caro aspires to a career in a government office. But when two men enter into Caro's orbit, they create a conjunction that would dismay an astrologer. The first, Ted Tice, becomes obsessed by Caro. He sees his attachment as an "intensification of his strongest qualities, if not of his strengths: not a youthful adventure, fresh and tentative, but a gauge of all effort, joy, and suffering known or imagined. The possibility that...
...night, just before 11 p.m. curfew, fleets of armored personnel carriers roll into Kabul from depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted bazaars, and halt momentarily in front of each government building. The elite paratroops who alight do not doze or socialize like the less disciplined Afghans from whom they assume command. Dressed in fur hats, bulky greatcoats and elephantine boots, they stand alert in the shadows waiting for the armored personnel carriers to pick them up again just before dawn...