Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, have the courage to tell them what they must sacrifice to remain free. Secretary Marshall has never made a major speech on foreign policy. His fellow citizens, far from indifferent to his views, would listen avidly to what he had to say about their responsibilities in the light of the U.S.'s newly emphasized world leadership...
...Edouard came back from the funeral dry-eyed. "Get into your pose," he told his mother. "We mustn't forget Maitre Bonnard told me to work always, and there's still a bit of light...
Most of the twelve had found their own styles during the war years, when neutral Ireland was left to stew in its own juices. They shared a liking for landscape, and misty Irish light-like Patrick Hennessy's silvery, ruined Cathedrals (see cut). Their leader was veteran Impressionist Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet William...
...just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with the dawn...
...quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last...