Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Especially is this true when the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to any race or religion are in jeopardy. We hope that our Southern friends will turn the white light of publicity upon the men whom we nominate for high offices in the Government and be as unsparing in their criticism-if it is deserved-as we have been of Bilbo...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...obediently purged her dance group of Jews. Says she: "We did everything we could to save our little candle light for the day when we could build a great, warming fire." Even so, two years later the Goebbels press decided that her kind of dancing was "modern degeneracy." She was chased out of Berlin, but the Nazis-torn between using her prestige and denouncing her art-allowed her to carry on a school in Dresden...
...Kurt Lange and David Weiner of the New York Medical College got the idea while studying blood circulation by means of fluorescein, a tracer dye which, injected into the blood, flows freely with it and glows yellow-green under long-wave ultraviolet light. When they froze rabbit tissues (and later that of human volunteers) they found that after a time the whole frozen area glowed brightly, indicating blood concentration...
...Willie Stark, the country lawyer. Reporter Burden, who had covered his phony campaign and seen him broken open by it, saw him again four years later after the primary in 1930. "But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes...