Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police were hitting at everything in sight, charging in a mad swirl under the inadequate light of the moon and the pallid electric lamps. Groans and shouts rang in my ears. I managed to hide in a side street. Demonstrators wrenched up the iron rails around the tree where I had been standing and used them as swords or clubs; others managed to tear up the paving stones from the curb, and hurled them at the police, often missing and striking their own comrades...
...raiders from Pakistan were amazingly well equipped. They used automatic guns, mortars,. 3.7-in. field guns, and even light tanks and flamethrowers. Troops of the Indian Dominion, flown in to hold the Maharaja's capital at Srinagar, the down-at-heel "Venice of the Orient," tried strafing the invaders from Spitfires of the Indian Air Force. But the raiders were through the outlying passes now and inside the lovely Vale of Kashmir itself. They pressed closer on Srinagar, and, on the march, proclaimed Azad Kashmir-Free Kashmir...
...Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made for purposes that will not stand the light...
...habit, he had started to dedicate his first drink to some aspect to local football, and found himself completely stymied. This was unprecedented. Even in Charlottesville, a last minute inspiration had provided him with a toast to the battle of Gettysburg. But this time there was no such flashing light. So Vag had downed his drink in three gulps, quickly poured another, joined a burbling group in one corner of the room, and sworn off football games. In other words, said Vag to himself he was unusually frank in these conversations, on the theory that they carried no consequences...
Joseph Hudnut '09, Dean of the Faculty of Design, stated that he specifically favored the idea of a Student Activities Center in the light of its special appropriateness for the purpose involved. "Fostering creative cooperative activity," he emphasized, "is in the spirit of the teamwork that characterized our military effort. I think the committee's expression of piety in the Church is actually a subconscious expression of squeamishness over-fund-raising...