Word: glows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing listeners to place their hands on their radio sets while he intones: "We rebuke that vile disease. Satan, take your vile disease from that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course, "a genuine autographed picture of Jesus Christ...
...smoky orange glow of torchlight, thousands of Vietnamese paraded through Saigon's streets last week to mark a milestone in their young nation's progress. Daily for more than three months, while the army of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem restored order to the rebel-infested countryside, 123 elected representatives (six of them women) had sat on straight backed chairs in a dingy onetime French opera house in Saigon and hammered out the republic's first constitution. Now, as the nation celebrated Diem's second anniversary as Premier, the ten-chapter constitution was finished...
...hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . .'It was indeed farsighted and bold for our young nation thus to identify its own self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow of exultation.' That principle has now been extended . . . Within the last ten years the U.S., always acting in a bipartisan manner, has made such treaties with 42 countries of America, Europe and Asia. These treaties abolish, as between the parties, the principle of neutrality...
President Manuel Odria did not originally plan any such free vote. An orderly general who has brought Peru a glow of prosperity by his economic reforms, Odria cherished the ambition of designating a friendly successor who would carry on his work. His plan was to offer one official candidate to the electorate for ratification, thus neatly fulfilling constitutional forms. But over the last year, step by step, the controlled election got out of control. Now, while Peru and Odria watch in suspense, three candidates are battling unpredictably for the presidency...
...TIME, May 14) marry Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Arthur (A View from the Bridge) Miller, 40, now in Reno getting a divorce? The nation waited breathlessly for an answer. A Reno report depicted Miller in a "champagne glow," sighing "darling" over the phone to Hollywood, but unwilling to dance on the ceiling until "after I'm free." At week's end Marilyn, yawning cryptically, sashayed off an early morning plane and limousined into Manhattan. Why? "Doctor's orders. I'm suffering from fatigue." What about Arthur? "Good friends." How does it feel to be 30, which...