Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright. Homer would not be moved. "This year I'm going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500 more lights. Blizzards of mail came from supporters, urging him to be steadfast...
Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...
...various information missions of the Economic Cooperation Administration which pays out Marshall Plan Funds. ECA in France publishes a slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side are the various embassies, the United States Information Service, and the Voice of America...
Inside, the finishing touches had been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...
...Squire," as his acquaintances always called him, was educated at Britain's famed Catholic public school, Stonyhurst College. Earlier teachers had found the boy's passion for nature study so all-absorbing that they had tried to whip it out of him. "But," said the Squire, the "bright colors in crockeryware are made permanent by the action of fire [and so] the warm application of the birch rod did but . . . render my ruling passion more distinct and clear...