Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still raining next morning when Capital's maintenance director, James Franklin, circled his light plane over a 1,689-ft. Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter of wings and burned fuselage, near the top of the peak. It was a scene with which the U.S. had become terribly familiar in the last three weeks. Flight 410 had hit the peak head-on 150 feet below the summit. There were no survivors...
Spelling Proudhon backwards, Bourin created his own Utopia at Fresnes prison (near Paris), during the months before his trial. It was called the Republic of Fresnes; other inmates of the prison held leading cabinet posts. The list of portfolios, as it came to light in court last week, included the Ministries of Catastrophes, Redundant Absurdities, Pots of Wine, the Budget & Squaring the Circle, Dangerous Initiatives, Counterfeit Money, Expediency, Peeling of Oranges and Violation of Nuns...
...black Chevrolet picked its way. As it entered the square before the tomb, butchers hacked off the heads of three camels and seven oxen. They threw hunks of bleeding meat to the city's poor. Unruffled, the Mahdi's son stepped daintily from his car, unfurled a light blue parasol, mounted the notables' platform...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
...London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...