Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been set up at the foot of the shaft. From his pocket, Egyptologist Guinet-Chaplain whipped a new, three-inch cigarette lighter, positively guaranteed to light in the highest wind, at any altitude. While his assistant Mario brandished the parasol and harangued the crowd by walkie-talkie from. the monument's top (see cut), Guinet-Chaplain proceeded to demonstrate the lighter's virtues. Eventually, two firemen climbed the ladder and escorted young Mario down...
...their biggest efforts in staunchly Catholic Transdanubia where prayers are still openly said for the health of jailed Cardinal Mindszenty. Paunchy (280 Ibs.) Father Istvan Balogh, suspended by his church and long in favor of collaboration with the government (TIME, Feb. 14), raced over back-country roads in his light blue Studebaker, campaigning among the peasants, who dread the Communists' plans for collectivization...
...city's open-air markets. Shanghai's fishing fleet lay idle at the docks. The price of yellow fish, one of the city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
...Your new administration has called forth from Board members, from students, from faculty, from all ranks among employes of the college, the charge of domination, repression, threat, violation of civil liberty and of academic freedom and of the light to organize...
...Light rains and two seven-run spurts by Jackson dampened the home team's hopes. Bright spot of the day for the Annex came in the fourth inning, when pitcher Charlotte Coe sailed the ball into the driveway by the old willow tree for a homer, bringing in three runs. Jackson had already crossed home plate 13 times...