Word: gleam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarly Commissioner Smyth (the "Smyth Report," 1945), whose service dates from the start of the wartime atom bomb project, has seen atomic energy grow from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...Israeli Delegate Abba Eban cried out that the verdict against his country was "more vehement and intemperate" than any the Council had ever rendered, even against the Communist aggressors in Korea. But he went down to defeat. Arab Spokesman Charles Malik of Lebanon hailed the censure as "the first gleam of hope in years that the Arabs are not going to be wronged again...
...landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...curving line of carefully placed black panels. Another sets up a stepladder at runway's end, climbs to the top (where he is almost as high as if he were in the cockpit of a landing plane) and counts the runway lights and markers that gleam through the weather. What each man sees is one more measure of visibility on the field. Automatic instruments keep a continuous record of wind, temperature and fog density...
...Dappled Gleam. Ceramists have long guessed that the purplish Temmoku glazes with distinctive "oil spots" must require a combination of natural clays rich in iron, fused with something like wood ash. If cooled down quickly after baking, such a mixture is shot through with spots or streaks. But while a spotty glaze is the easiest thing in the world to obtain, the Temmoku glaze with a deep, dappled gleam is apparently one of the hardest. The secret of making it has been lost for about 750 years. Experimenting over the past few months with a variety of natural clays...