Word: haloes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no halo yet shining above Gary Wood's head, but nearly everyone agrees he is "wonderous." The Cornell Dally Sun summed up its school's football prospects with a heartfelt "Knock on Wood...
...tinkle in a sparkling Mozartian minuet. But hark! Whence comes this counterpoint that shivers the crystals into new and shimmering song? It comes from the man behind the desk-a big-handed, big-boned man with a lined, cornfield face and greying locks that spiral above him like a halo run amok. He speaks, and the words emerge in a soft, sepulchral baritone. They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps. He fills his lungs and blows word-rings like smoke. The sentences curl upward. They chase each other around the room in dreamy images of Steamboat Gothic...
...presents his Gandhian philosophy (see box), King himself has failed to convince Albany's Negroes. For one thing, many Negroes throughout the South suspect that too much success has drained him of the captivating fervor that made him famous. Says a Negro: "Martin comes in wearing his spiritual halo and blows on his flute and the money comes pouring in. But he doesn't even speak for the Baptist ministry, let alone 20 million Negroes...
...Republicans clearly sensed that John Kennedy's political halo was beginning to tilt. In their two-day session, the committeemen repeatedly cited the President's harsh action against U.S. Steel, his economic troubles, his request for power to change tax rates and spend heavily for public works, his support of his brother Ted's U.S. Senate candidacy...
...oval object more than three times as long as it is broad. This is the same shape as the doughnut-like Van Allen belt of charged particles that have been trapped by the earth's magnetic field, and Morris and Berge concluded that Jupiter also has a magnetic halo that captures charged particles thrown from the sun. As they whirl around the planet at nearly the speed of light, the particles in Jupiter's halo give off radiation in the form of radio waves...