Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the uproar over his confirmation as atomic boss in the spring of 1947, they had paid little attention to David Lilienthal-a fact which Lilienthal himself privately deplored. But they had their light fixed on him now. As baffled as they were, and as unprepared as they were, they were still determined to know a lot more about the details of how Lilienthal had been running his atomic empire. The trick would be to strengthen what was weak in AEC without weakening all that was strong...
...Reds' light, mustard-colored uniforms were generally clean, and the men were well armed with Bren guns, Tommy guns, modern rifles (some of Japanese make, some U.S.). They carried pouches of hand grenades at their belts, bandoleers of cartridges across their shoulders. Many were exhausted. At every halt, soldiers slumped in doorways and on sidewalks. One tall native of Shantung looked up wearily: "What day is it today? We've been walking and fighting for eight days...
...call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary. On her way back she stops to see her friend, the butcher. "Is my son a traitor?" she asks him then. "Is that what people...
Pidgin belong you, Big Fella Strong belong You, Light belong You altogether day. Amen...
...dying Goethe to his daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind of the other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been nearly forgotten...