Word: glows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space travel are designing and firing their own small rockets, and tracking them through the atmosphere. Near Cape Canaveral, Fla., tourists are staying in motels with such names as "The Sea Missile," eating in "Missile Barbecue," holding night parties on a beach where they can watch the distant pink glow of missile night firings; in the mornings, Florida fishermen bring up bits of the missiles in their nets. "Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman in Alamogordo, N. Mex., a missile town whose population has increased since 1950 from...
...state under La Scala's crystal chandeliers. Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral. After Mass, Victor de Sabata, now principal conductor at La Scala, led the Cathedral and La Scala choirs in Verdi's magnificent Requiem; it is rarely heard in church because it is considered...
...appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...
...have often run into trouble because the particles damage the current-yielding parts of the battery. The Kidde-Elgin battery sidesteps this difficulty by mixing the promethium 147 with a phosphor (light-giving substance) and enclosing the mixture in transparent plastic. Electrons from the Pm-147 make the phosphor glow, and its light is turned into electricity by a photoelectric surface of silicon on each side of the plastic wafer. No electrons escape from the plastic, and so the silicon is not damaged...
...that seem now as dead as any other journalism." And she believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...