Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine eastern states, another trout season got under way. By the thousands, fishermen struggled out of bed before dawn, bundled into several layers of clothing, pulled on their waders, tuned up their tackle, gulped hot coffee and were off. As light broke, they slogged into the ice-cold waters of such favorite streams as the Wiscoy, the Willowemoc, the Ausable, the Beaverkill and the Lackawaxen...
...week long in Berlin the desultory brabbling between the Western Powers and the Russians flared, faded, flared again. The light generated there illuminated little save irreconcilable differences. But 350 miles to the west, in the heart of the industrial Ruhr, the flickerings revealed how much closer was a Western German state...
...Labor Government, however, the new tax was not only an attractively easy way of raising a lot of money, but a soak-the-rich sop to trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
Cartoonists! Budding genil of the Bristol board! Are you slaving unrewarded on House dance posters? Wasting your talent on marginal notes and hand-painted neckties? Have you sold your soul to the intellectual red-light district on Bow Street? Does your radio sound...
Convening in Leverett House at scheduled intervals, the members informally sit around sipping wine amidst the flickering shadows cast by candle-light, while reciting the most ghostly and frightening stories they can find...