Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...
Managed by the Lowell Institute Co-operative Broadcasting Council (associated with the University and other local institutions), WGBH lost about $1 million worth of equipment in the blaze...
...Heppenstall are an improbable two-piano team. Wilson, 30, is the lank young man who scored five years ago with a precocious, philosophicallow book of criticism called The Outsider, and has produced three non-scores since. Heppenstall, 50. is a respected British critic (The Fourfold Tradition) and novelist (The Blaze of Noon) whose writing style has a precise elegance. But in these two books they are hammering away at the same theme. The music is not much; the main difference is that Heppenstall can really play...
This waste does not bother the present-day farmer; the sunlight that falls on his fields is free. But commercial florists, whose greenhouses already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...dining tables. Within tea months, however, the administration announced that apparently the big thirst was only temporary: consumption was falling off and the College was losing money by supplying the few remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which it did, in a blaze of apathy, Harvard men turned back to milk at the Bick, and a few months later another perennial polltaker informed them that milk was indeed Harvard's favorite drink...