Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly the proprietor noticed a strange glow over a nearby freeway. Rushing outside, the men saw a large, metallic, cigar-shaped object between 300 feet and 500 feet in the air. "It had a huge, white light on the top," says Officer Jim Overton. "Down at the bottom it had a smaller, not so bright light. Around the center of this object was a band, either paint or a different kind of metal. It suddenly began to move with the most terrific burst of speed I've ever seen...
...trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
...closed two big deals, and am continually getting more offers." Projects pending include a book and film based on the Chichester exploit. Sir Francis stands to come out decidedly in the black from the perilous 28,500-mile voyage, whose second lap ended, after 119 days, in the red glow of sunset in Plymouth harbor to the cheers of 250,000 assembled Britons...
...colors and materials,' photographed for their shapes and tones. Crushed cloth and metal and other substances are bathed in different colored lights until a pleasing composition is obtained and photographed. The photos are framed and mounted like paintings, some with lights behind them to give a stained glass glow...
...pole is not winning the race, of course, and Andretti's toughest competitor on May 30 may well be Parnelli Jones, the 1963 champion, whose controversial new STP Special was the talk of Indy. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney aircraft turbine, the car has no clutch, only two "glow" plugs, can run on anything from kerosene to armagnac, gets twice as many miles per gallon as conventional Indy cars, and is practically soundless-emitting a sort of loud sigh as it ghosts around the track. Jones easily qualified the car at 166 m.p.h., and competitors cried foul. Among them...