Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Togliatti been struck with light on the road to Damascus? Had he gone...
...year 529, the civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino-a steady light, on a steep hill, which was ultimately to illuminate all Western Europe. In February 1944, seeking out a German observation post, U.S. bombers demolished the abbey, and put out the light...
...light had shone from one of history's great treasure houses, which was a library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary...
...Little. When he was six, Sidney had just picked up a clarinet and started playing. Nobody told him how, and he still can't read music well. He played his first date in New Orleans' red-light district when he was 10. He says "If I couldn't find the notes in the proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering...
...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...