Word: beamless
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...dedicated life about to be destroyed by political duplicity. Fleetingly, the U.S. Embassy becomes a symbol of the blind arrogance and wastefulness of all great powers. "He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself...
...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
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