Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous thunderclap, the Grandcamp vanished. Hot steel screamed uptown. A flaming wall of oil-covered water rolled over the docks as the blast picked up a steel barge and flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
...doors and windows of the First State Bank and scattered money all over the floor. It tossed Mrs. Tena Lide out through a second-story window, twisted the steel roof beams of the auditorium, puffed in the roof and a wall of the Jewel Theater, knocked out the gas, light and water systems and pancaked rows of houses...
Henry Wallace's English hosts were pleased but shaken. What could be made of a man who smeared marmalade on his rhubarb at breakfast? Then there was the broadcast over Britain's Government-owned BBC. Carefully his sponsors explained that the occasion was nonpolitical, calling for light pleasantries. Wallace had nodded vaguely, mumbled that he understood. Then he launched into a violent attack on U.S. "power politics." Said a sponsor: "We were appalled-but delighted, too. We could never have got it on the air ourselves...
University Green Light...
...would seem, therefore, that other ways of getting tough ought to be tried if the ultimate is to make it a practice for nations to utilize an international organization. If Senator Taft sincerely believes in cooperation and is not just red-baiting, he ought to reconsider his proposal in light of these larger demands of internationalism...