Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not give the great flash of light that it gives in the atmosphere. About two-thirds of its total energy appears as a brief, enormously powerful burst of soft X rays, rather like those that are used to treat skin diseases. Those soft X rays cause a soft glow when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated long before they reach the earth. There are also small amounts of gamma rays. Like the X rays, these are electromagnetic radiation that travel with the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.). Following behind at less than one-tenth...
Some observers reckon that Ludwig would like to fashion a fully integrated oil complex-wellheads, tankers, pumps. Doing things, not basking in the glow of achievement, seems to be his goal. Like Industrialist Howard Hughes, he is usually inaccessible, rarely interviewed, seldom seen even by his lawyer. His off-hours, like any suburbanite's, are invested in fighting the crabgrass on the lawn of his modest home in Darien, Conn., where he lives with his second wife (he has one stepson). Early-morning commuters do not recognize this unobtrusive suburbanite for one of the world's wealthiest...
...some cut to sixteenths, and so on. In other paintings, stripes or threads of different colors run over a common background to form diamonds and squares that emerge not as solid forms but as ghostly shapes coming out of nowhere. Some have the misty delicacy of a rainbow; others glow like fluorescent light...
Secure Sentries. Objects that are only dimly visible to the eye glow with an almost painful brilliance on the electronic screen. On nights when even the stars are blacked out, the night eye can pick up meaningful glimmers. A sentry scanning his assigned sector could use the Bouwers telescope with perfect security; his snooperscope-equipped buddy would see over a much shorter range and would always be faced with the danger of discovery by an enemy fitted out with infrared detectors...
...Announcer John ("Shorty") Powers proudly said: "The spacecraft is still performing in almost unbelievable fashion." And then came the crisis. On his 19th orbit, while out of radio contact over the Western Pacific, Cooper reached forward, threw a switch to dim his panel lights-and saw a small indicator glow green...