Word: glowe
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...Office of Physical Resources (OPR). Responding to pressure from undergraduates, the OPR is working with the Harvard University Police Department to install new phones on the way to the Quad and near the river Houses. Nothing warms the cockles of our hearts more than the warm blue glow of a security phone and we're pleased that the landscape will be dotted with even more shimmering Centrex terminals...
Starr is hardly alone. With rare exceptions, witnesses simply do not permit themselves to go on the offensive when a series of blue-suited, blow-dried politicians bathe themselves in the warm glow of television lights and let forth with a "question" that is a variation on this theme: "Mr. Jones, wouldn't you agree that your despicable conduct, which has outraged decent Americans everywhere, has stained our Constitution, dishonored the brave men who fell at Valley Forge, dismayed our allies, comforted our enemies and caused our great agricultural produce to wither on the vine?" This restraint is curious. First...
This blossoming market for all things herbal has attracted growing interest from everyone from Ann Landers (who recommends herbs as an alternative to Viagra) and Larry King (whose radio ads credit ginseng for his youthful, uh, glow) to professors of medicine and Wall Street investors. Just last week the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) released an issue devoted entirely to studies of herbs and so-called alternative remedies (see accompanying story). Among the eye-opening findings: Americans today make more visits to nontraditional physicians, including naturopaths who claim expertise in herbs and other natural therapies, than to their...
...finished writing the last paragraph, a sensation like poisoned gas began to wraith around inside my chest--a sick green glow, the lightly radioactive foretaste of something awful. Then a vise beneath my breastbone tightened...and tightened...and tightened, a slow-motion black implosion of the body's core. I had a heart attack. Quite a surprise...
Fifteen years later, the sign still shines in a steady constant glow so that "sometimes when [BU students] get bored [they can] turn out the lights, look out of [their] window and pretend that the Citgo sign is a giant disco ball shining light into [their] own private Studio 54." Well, no one ever said Boston was that exciting anyway...