Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Persistence, doggedness. Quite smart, quite bright, quite convinced he is right. So when he takes what I would call a very liberal position in American politics, I think he is doing it from conviction. I don't think he is doing it because he is trying to get ahead in the campaign...
...next year, as a sophomore, Dukakis won a more important race, becoming a town-meeting representative. He ran with the help of a bright group of young Brookliners, many of them Jewish, who were consciously taking control of the town meeting on their way to bigger battles. Forming an organization called the C.O.D. (Commonwealth Organization of Democrats), they were not crusaders devoted to a single ideology. Reform for them meant putting better people into government, enforcing laws, ending graft...
...name of their god of war. It was named Ares by the Greeks, Mars by the Romans. When the first telescopes revealed that the planets were neither specks of light nor gods but worlds, perhaps like earth, the notion grew that Mars might harbor life. Noting variations between the bright and dark areas of the planet, British Astronomer Sir William Herschel in 1784 attributed them to "clouds and vapors" and concluded that Mars had an atmosphere and that "its inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar...
Even more dangerous are solar flares, which usually blossom on the sun around the peak of the eleven-year solar cycle. During these massive explosions, which astronomers can spot in the form of extra-bright splotches suddenly appearing on the sun, bursts of X rays and charged particles are hurled outward at high velocities. Because protons from a large flare can easily penetrate the walls of a spacecraft and fatally riddle the body of an astronaut in half an hour, planners envision an onboard shelter into which the crew could repair as soon as a solar-flare warning was sounded...
...next day, Reagan marched on, out of the dreary duties of war and death to the bright star bursts of July 4th. More than 3,000 White House staff members and their families gathered on the White House lawn to watch the - fireworks on the Mall. Reagan, in a tribute on his last Independence Day as President, spoke from the veranda of the White House. "Maybe when we say our prayers, maybe we can pray that other countries will have something to celebrate...