Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After approximately 10,000 years, his theory continues, temperatures reached approximately one million degrees and the mass began to glow with intense radiation. Later, as the dust again cooled and stars began to form, the energy was dissipated throughout the universe...
...sort of hearty Walter Mitty who continually pretended that he was somebody else. Evelyn himself, though somewhat daunted by Alec, an extraverted elder brother who also became a novelist (Island in the Sun), was a dreamy and credulous child who adored Sunday evensong and lived in "an even glow of pure happiness...
...addition to his fellowship, Hastings is a professor at the University of Illinois. He is engaged in research on the molecular mechanism which cause fireflies and marine organisms to glow rhythmically...
...Firefly Glow...
...does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...