Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music of the git-fiddle thrummed through the hot Georgia night, setting nerves to throbbing in the little town of Euharlee. In the harsh, yellow light of a lantern, youthful Gordon Miller cried aloud: "I ain't had this power but about a month now. But I got the power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...
...village received a supply of canvas shoes. . . . When they were displayed in the stores, they stopped traffic. People had only to look at them, and their hands would instinctively go into their pockets for money to buy. By evening many people were wearing the season's novelty-these light elegant shoes...
...Even the physical characteristics of his face, his Peruvian or Malayan skin, his large black eyes narrowed by intense concentration and as if drinking in the light, his thick and shiny hair, his stubborn forehead, his tightly shut lips conveying an expression of cruelty ... in fact, his whole being suggested that he was of exotic birth. More than once as I looked at him, I thought of ... Montezuma whose practiced hand could in a single day sacrifice three thousand human creatures on the pyramid-like Altar...
Bird's-Eye View. Allowing for this rise in costs, and even with all the postponements, the rate at which new capital investments are being made is still at an alltime high. The utility and oil industries account for much of it. Electric light and power companies are in the early stages of a five-year expansion program that will cost $5 billion before it is finished. By the end of next year, oil companies will make additions and improvements worth some $4 billion, a boost of more than 22% in their total investments...