Word: glows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light my American cigarette with a Russian match," he once joked. But Moscow's nearly $1.5 billion in military and economic aid over the past 20 years far outdistanced Washington's $500 million, and inevitably the flame of the match grew a little warmer than the glow of the cigarette. The Soviet Union and India became the first countries to recognize the new government last week. In Washington, the State Department said that it had recognition under consideration...
...large enough so that tanks and trucks can drive for miles inside them. One tunnel where the molelike troops are quartered contains half a mile of double-decked bunks. There is even a 1,000-seat theater hollowed out of the granite. Everywhere the eerie glow from fluorescent lights turns the damp rock walls a sickly purple...
When you gotta glow...
...approaches closer to the sun. In the "solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December, and even more spectacularly in the evening during January as it begins to move away...
...radium needle in the big accumulator in the lab and everyone got sick. The lab closed, the mice died. People went away." He recalls the day when FDA agents arrived with court orders to dismantle the accumulators. The elder Reich was cooperative but bitterly sarcastic. "I could feel the glow from Daddy's head," writes Peter. He could also smell the Johnson's Baby Oil which his father always used to relieve his chronic eczema...