Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Corwin diffidently of his work: "I hope you'll excuse the pretentious comparison, but I think of the series like Pathfinder planes which precede a raid and light a target. My series may not score a hit, but it may light up an area that has not hitherto been explored. . . . Anyway, it's all there for history, if history is interested...
Walls of glass brick will throw some light on the highly-charged subject. Among the up-to-date equipment that will speed up the workings of the new giant is a huge travelling crane, installed under the roof, that will help to handle the ponderous atom-smashing apparatus...
Rising in the midst of the warmest period in American-Soviet relations since the war, the icy implications of the Spitzbergen controversy tend to drive home some basic truths about the state of the peace. If optimists are deluded into believing that all is to be sweetness and light between Washington and the Kremlin they must rub their eyes hard in view of this recent Soviet demand. The logic behind the Russian demand seems to hint that something more than psychology, something more than sympathy, something more than mere patience must be part of the State Department outlook toward...
Senator Vandenberg firmly repeated his hope of disarmament as "our dearest dream." But: "We shall not disarm alone. . . . We shall take no 'sweetness and light' for granted in a world where there is still too much 'iron curtain.' We shall not trust alone to fickle words. Too many 'words' at Yalta and at Potsdam have been distorted out of all pretense of integrity." (Jimmy Byrnes, listening, frowned deeply...
...additional light will be cast at this time on Parkhurst's "all for the love of a lady" explanation of his possession of illegal drugs, said the attorney, preserving the revelation of her identity for the Federal...