Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, Holy Saturday, Ladas stopped off at the Church of Saint George to light a traditional candle. As he stepped back into his waiting car, a young man in a Greek air force uniform walked up, tossed in a hand grenade. The explosion mortally wounded Ladas and his policeman bodyguard, injured the tosser, Communist Ephstratios Moutsoyannis. As the police dragged him off, he muttered: "Party orders ... party orders...
...Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
...successful trifle then, it may easily prove a successful trifle now. If it spends most of its time winking at the audience, if without managing to be a play at all it presumes to offer a play within a play, its suavity saves it. It has that light touch which for so long, with Molnar, proved a Midas touch...
...biggest cyclotron will be radically new in design. Its magnet will be a massive hollow ring with a vacuum chamber inside it. Driven by subtly timed electrical pushes, atomic particles will circle faster & faster around the chamber until their speed comes close to the speed of light. Berkeley scientists calculate that when a proton has circled around the chamber something over a million times, it will have six billion electron volts of energy...