Word: lamp
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...gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance of detail that reawakens the sorrows of Old China. A short list of levies: "pig-rearing tax, firecracker tax, opium-smoking lamp tax, marrying off one's daughter tax, narcissus bulb tax, superstition tax, lower-class prostitute singing tax, and, terrible thought, night-soil tax, so that one couldn't even defecate without paying...
...tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
Jackson, a non-roster player, connected off Dennis Lamp with two out in the sixth inning after Terry Pendleton had singled...
LASERS. They are devices that generate high-powered, concentrated beams of light, almost perfectly parallel and of a single wavelength. The light from a lamp, in contrast, is a fuzzy discharge wiggling at different wavelengths and scattering in every direction. Laser beams travel at the speed of light (not surprising: they are light, though not always visible) and can be focused over thousands of miles of space to burn a hole in the skin of a Soviet missile, destroying its guidance mechanism and deactivating its warheads...
...their more personal items were read off, Virginia Jensen wept. There was a loveseat, a silver oil lamp, brass candlesticks, a woman's rocker. When Baum cited "an oak bedroom set," she lost control. "These are family heirlooms," she shouted. "They've been in our family for 150 years. They're not for sale." But they were. Under the rules of the auction, the articles could not be split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed...