Word: glowingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew home to Peking, a Sino-Soviet dialogue had been established for the first time in 16 months. The olive branch had been offered to all warring parties in the Communist movement, and the acute embarrassment brought about by Khrushchev's boorish intransigence had been transmuted into a glow of wary hope. How healing this might be for Communist prestige with the "nonaligned" was illustrated by the report that Algeria...
That mellow old glow of mantled gas is bathing the front walks and herbaceous borders of thousands of ranchstyles, split-levels, Cape Cod saltboxes and California moderns-lending what their owners hope is a touch of antiquarian distinction in a fluorescent world. In 1914, before the miracle of cheap electricity made them obsolete, some 290,000 gas lamps illuminated U.S. streets. Today there are no fewer than...
...sentry nervously stares at the ink-dark night. Among the rustlings of leaves and insects he hears a harder, hostile sound. He raises his rifle and presses an eye to a rubber cup at the end of a tubular scope. Now blackness turns into an eerie green glow; the sentry can see trees, bushes, rocks. If an enemy patrol is creeping toward him, he can spot the moving figures with surprising ease...
...Army's new night peeper leaves no such signature. It needs only the faint light that comes from the moon, stars or sky glow, which is never entirely absent. This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube. The screen is photoemissive-it gives off electrons when struck by the faintest light. These photoelectrons are then speeded up by high electrical charges so that when they hit a phosphor (luminescent) screen in the tube, they make a much brighter image. The process is repeated three times, until...
...Glow of Happiness. Typically, Waugh "follows the old fashion" of autobiography and begins not with himself but his ancestors. With warmth, wit and antiquarian zeal he traces them through four generations of the solid, comfortably moneyed professional class that saw the flowering of the British Empire. Waugh himself was born near London in 1903, given the name Evelyn "from a whim of my mother's. I have never liked the name." He borrows an anecdote from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from...