Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he whisked off to the swank Savoy Hotel and the first of a dizzy round of lunches, parties and talks with England's tweedy intellectuals. He latched on to many a new idea, spent much time in his second-floor suite redrafting his speeches in the light of what he had heard. At a second press conference he gave his own simplified version of U.S.-Russian relations. He likened the two countries to two big dogs facing each other: "For a long time they smell each other-when they're satisfied, they usually don't want...
...town's power went dead. In the uncertain light of car headlights and flashlights, in the drenching rain, in the flickering light of the fires which broke out, Woodward's citizens tore at the debris of their shattered homes, looking for wives, children, husbands. One-third of the town had been destroyed. Three thousand were homeless. Mrs. Grim and 90 others were dead...
...chauffeur and sent him off to the nearest telephone to call Dr. John Mateer of the Ford Hospital, which the old man had endowed. But before Dr. Mateer arrived a cerebral hemorrhage had done its work. In the cold, hushed room, Henry Ford, aged 83, had died by the light of old-fashioned kerosene lamps and flickering candles...
...Easter Eve, Russians of all ages, types and uniforms milled about with the candles they would light at midnight. The greatest excitement centered around Epiphany Cathedral, where the Patriarch Alexei-assisted by his metropolitans and bishops-would officiate. Twelve thousand Muscovites churned and shouted gaily in the clear starry night outside. Inside the cathedral were 7,000 more, unlit candles in hand...
Since five, Fred Harrington, Jim Holt, Bill Dowd, Arthur George, and Capt. Howie Hall, of 1946's distinguished light eight are still rowing, it might be reasonable to expect another bumper season; but Coach Haines points out that a reputation is harder to maintain than to acquire. The empty places have been claimed by Dave Clark, a strong number five, and Henry Erhard who fulfills particularly well one of the cardinal functions of a good bow man, namely to bring the weight average down. His weight: 137. Despite this amazing individual achievement, the boat as a whole is too heavy...