Word: glows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evil Glow. There was another possibility, unpleasant to contemplate but impossible to disregard. U.S. intelligence sources reported last week that Soviet Russia's civil defense preparations are now just about complete. As recently as a year ago the Russians seemed to be paying little attention to civil defense; Western officials read this as one sign that Russia was not prepared to go to war. In the light of the latest intelligence assessment, the bacteriological warfare propaganda took on an evil glow. It is just the kind of campaign which a totalitarian state might be expected to use to whip...
...south, on the tiny island of Camiguin in the Mindanao Sea, a violent earthquake warned natives that towering Hibok-Hibok might be preparing for another eruption. Last December its molten lava and deadly gases killed hundreds of Camiguenos (TIME, Dec. 17). Now, after the earthquake, a reddish glow in the sky above the volcano is an almost sure sign that the lava has again boiled close to the rim of the crater...
...silence engulfs the city, broken only by the infrequent whimpering of a shattered milliner. Peace descends, the western sky assumes the soft reds and blues of a New England sunset, and the first calm note of the angelus rings out over the countryside. Lights are beginning to flicker and glow in dormer windows. Let us take our leave now, softly, quietly...
...last three years, a group of newspapermen have been meeting in Manhattan, discussing what the United Nations should recommend about newspapers in general. The idea of such a conclave--called the Freedom of Information Convention--belongs to an American newspaper society, which in the glow of the inter-Allied good-fellowship that followed the Atlantic Charter began agitating for a code to make the world's journals as free as those in America. The glow has dulled now, and the Convention has contributed much to its expiration...
...plotline of Children of the Rainbow is not its lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...