Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bone-weary scientists had worked all night. But as they walked away from the lab, they seemed curiously reluctant to quit. They loitered in the cool dawn and stared at the eastern horizon. There, the pale glow of Venus marked the morning-as it has done so many times since man learned to recognize Earth's nearest planetary neighbor...
Community Twilight. Except for a glow of pride, tempered with nervous concern, among some Frenchmen, the only cheerful voices were being raised in Moscow, where Soviet ideologists suddenly thought they saw confirmation of the hoary Marxist-Leninist tenet that capitalist countries will inevitably be destroyed by their "inner contradictions." Cried a Russian spokesman: "This is the twilight of the so-called European Community. A difficult navigation now awaits the American ship of state...
Better lighting was requested by 57 per cent of the students; the major objections to the present systems were dimness, noise, glare, "depressing glow." To remedy these problems the HUCA suggested the use of table flickers as a practical light fixture...
Behind the sword dancing and cymbal clashing of the bestseller lists, where titles assail the eye from ads and authors assail the ear on panel shows, there are books that glow and grow with a life of their own, "discovered" and talked up by readers rather than literary promoters. Currently sparking such a small-scale chain reaction is a strange and touching little first novel called Stern. It is giving Author Bruce Jay Friedman, 32, who has published some short stories and who works in Manhattan as editor of an adventure magazine, a coterie reputation as a new novelist with...
That sounds good. It needs something else, though." Breaking into a cherubic glow, he intones : "John Fitzgerald Lambert. Republican President of the United States." A born worrier, he glances abruptly toward his wife. "You don't think being a Protestant will hurt his chances...