Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory over Princeton sheds reassuring light on the latter portion of the Harvard hockey season, which has not been bright lately. After losing to Boston College for the second time this season, 11-3, the Crimson plummeted to the nadir of their present campaign versus Northeastern, falling to the Huskies...
France. The SDECE has some bright leaders and operates well in certain areas, notably former French West Africa. Suffers from internal squabbling and is thought to be penetrated by Communist agents...
...fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing object and reported it as a meteorite. Told later that it was a uranium-bearing satellite, he declared: "My gosh, I was standing on the roof watching it go by. Maybe I'm sterile...
...chatted about than money, food, sex or even scandals. Nor is it regarded as trivial small talk-"the discourse of fools," as an English proverb has it. Indeed, it is fodder for the conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather in his newspapers and magazines, listens to regular forecasts of it on the radio and watches while some TV prophet milks it for cuteness on the evening...
...those radicals who compared the New Deal to aspirin and Bolshevism to heroic surgery. He underscored this passion to cut with three lines of Depression verse: " We care not if Thy flag be white or red/ Come, ruthless Savior, messenger of God,/ Lenin or Christ, we follow Thy bright sword...