Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved a flickering beacon. Some of the dreams of uhuru have been shattered; a very few, such as the founding of the Organization for African Unity in 1963, have been fulfilled. Black Africa is embarking on its second decade of independence with a more realistic outlook and sounder, brighter hopes of genuine progress. But the prediction that the Duke of Gloucester offered to the leaders of Nigeria in 1959 still rings true: "The future may not be easy. You have a heavy task before...
...colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion of organic cucumbers and lemons...
Meanwhile, the sophomore line of Dave Hynes, Bob McManama, and Bill Corkery has taken up some of the slack. Corkery, for example, scored in all four games during the Christmas trip. But the situation for Harvard would look much brighter if both the sophomore and the first lines were sharp...
...ranks: "We hear you! We hear you!" The movement was given further impetus last week by new directives from the Army and Air Force that seek to make life in the service more bearable and attractive. It aims to meet at least in part the demands of a brighter, more restive generation of young Americans who reject the artificiality of make-work chores and spit-and-polish regimen, who want to know the why of orders and the wherefore of authority. Each officer has his own definition of the new mood, and not all approve of the change...
...that impressed even him. "One night I was standing with my mother in front of our house. She's from Point Barrow-and she said she remembered a legend she'd heard about the Northern Lights. It said that if you chanted these certain words, the lights would get brighter. So she said these words, it sounded like mumbles to me, 'mboo hom mom,' or something, I don't understand Eskimo language-and then the lights got brighter." He shrugged, smiling. "They really...