Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...arrived, streets and alleyways were littered with dead, and there were more to come. A young girl wriggled out of one blazing window on a sheet rope, started, catlike, toward an aerial ladder two floors below. Suddenly she lost her footing on the wall, turned gropingly in the lurid light and let go. "I knew she'd hit that marquee," muttered a spectator. Another body hit a wire over; the marquee, spun and hung by the neck for a moment, then plopped down...
...find myself in the midst of exaggeration and falsity. I am unable to discover the truth. Truth and nonviolence, by which I swear and which have sustained me for 60 years, seem to fail to show the attributes I have ascribed to them. ... I see no light through the impenetrable darkness. I find that my theories of nonviolence do not answer in the matter of Hindu-Moslem relations. I have come here to discover a new technique...
Last April she sowed a third of an acre to hard red spring wheat, harvested a 200-Ib. crop by hand in mid-July. She sieved, cleaned and polished the individual kernels. Then she spent eye-straining days with a bright light and magnifying glass hand-picking the best 15 pounds. These she shipped off in mid-November to the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago...
...years, The Light of the World, a daytime soaper based on the Bible, did a decorous one-a-day, Monday through Friday, for General Mills. Last March, with flour short, General Mills turned off The Light. Result: all over the U.S. church groups, which had used the show in Bible study, squawked loud & long. This week, with flour again in stock, General Mills once more beamed The Light to devoted listeners...