Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preoccupations, the astronaut found time to take a careful, searching look at the earth below him. And he brought back the best report yet of how man's home looks from nearby space. The sky is velvety black, he said, and against it the sunlit earth glows in brilliant shades of blue and green-colors hard to imagine or duplicate because of their wonderful purity. Everywhere the earth is flecked with white clouds. When his capsule swept over the dark side of the earth, the ground was lit only by the feeble glow of the quarter-moon...
Blue Flash. Scientists have known for decades, says Hunt, that the dark-adapted human eye can detect X rays and gamma rays as a yellow-green glow. This sensation apparently comes from direct action of the rays on minute light-sensitive cells in the eye's retina, but it has almost no value as a practical warning sense. When the eye is not darkadapted, and it hardly ever is, the retina is sensitive only to massive doses of radiation from such disasters as runaway nuclear reactors. On these unhappy occasions, the victim sees a vivid blue flash...
Betrayed Dupe. In his defense, Salan delivered a 45-minute statement in which he once again traced his military record ("I made the name of France glow at the ends of the earth"). As he saw it, his career in the French army was beset by "treason" and "betrayal" back home; he would have won gloriously in Indo-China and Algeria. He admitted being the leader of the S.A.O. and declared: "My responsibility is entire. I accept it." The S.A.O...
Pipers & Chicks. Old-fashioned Welsbach gas street lamps glow cheerily along the wide sidewalks of the L-shaped intersection of Olive and Boyle. With the arrival of spring, St. Louisans have been turning out by the thousands to sit in the sidewalk cafes and stroll through the square (a stroller can drift from place to place with the same drink in his hand all evening if he has a mind to). There is plenty to do, and the way is never blocked by cover charges. At the Opera House, where a frieze of 2,500 croquet balls ("I got them...
Topping off a week that, on the face of it. should have put Wall Street in a rosy glow was mounting evidence that corporate profits had set a first-quarter record in 1962. From corporations across the whole spectrum of industry came glittering reports. Du Font's first-quarter earnings were a record $2.23 a share v. $1.85 last year; Republic Steel's were 99? v. 37?. U.S. Rubber's 75? v. 68?. Standard Oil of California...