Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb and beat of the swirling paces, the glow of sweat, the shining eyes of enthusiasm, all combined in a vivid phantasmagoria of colour and of sheer physical, animal magnetism...
...Dyes for staining tissues and cells and even individual germs, including some to make suspect substances glow under ultraviolet rays...
...last in 1586, El Escorial was consecrated on the eve of San Lorenzo's feast day, with 200,000 oil lamps illuminating it so brightly that the glow could be seen in Toledo, 50-odd miles to the south. Its walls stretched 675 ft. by 530 ft., embracing 16 courtyards, 4,000 rooms, 86 staircases, 88 fountains and 100 miles of corridors. Philip had commanded his architects to create "simplicity in the construction, severity in the whole, nobility without arro gance, majesty without ostentation." Except for the gables, almost every line in the facades is dead straight; the exterior...
Into this mixture the multivator will squirt a shot of test chemicals-fluorescein spiked with phosphate. The fluorescein cannot give off its telltale glow until the phosphate has been removed, and nothing can remove phosphate better than the enzyme phosphatase, which is common to all life on earth...
...phosphatase is present in the Martian dust, it will eat away the inhibiting phosphate, and the fluid in the multivator's chambers will begin to glow. That glimmer will then be picked up by a photomultiplier tube, converted into a radio signal in the Mariner capsule, and relayed back to earth...