Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Times Square lay in its nervous twilight of night and neon glow. The rubberneckers, the readers of the Daily Racing Form, the Liggett Romeos and the double-feature devotees opened a grudging path down 44th Street. From the cavalcade of tinny taxis and glossy limousines poured Broadway's first-nighters, their faces as rosy and bland as cherries in a Manhattan...
...Like all the four known artificial elements,† curium is unstable. Each millionth of a gram shoots out 70 billion alpha particles (helium nuclei) per minute, 3,000 times as many as the same amount of radium. This activity makes a solution of curium hydroxide glow strongly enough to take its own photograph. Its "half-life" (the period during which one half disintegrates) is only five months...
Broadway marquees took on a nostalgic glow. Gone With the Wind-all four hours of it-was in its fourth Manhattan week (MGM cheerfully estimated that it would take in another $5 million to add to its already prodigious $32 million). For five midsummer weeks, the Palace advertised "a repertory of memorable motion pictures," including Love Affair (1939), Top Hat (1935), Gunga Din (1939), The Informer (1935), The Spanish Main (1945) and The Bells of St. Mary's. Elsewhere in Manhattan, moviegoers could see Charles Laughton in Henry the Eighth (1933), Fredric March in Les Miserables (1935), Bette Davis...
...enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...
...change brings no good for any of the Sisters. They are disturbed by the remoteness of the place and its unearthly quiet, by the winds, by the breath-taking beauty of the mountains. They are unsettled by the florid carnality of the murals which glow from the walls of the old pleasure house. And people trouble them as much as the place and its erotic past...