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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thoroughly frightened, Mrs. Kowalsky hurried to her home next door, thought it over for a while and called the cops. With axes and crowbars, policemen dug into a little closet-like room and brought to light the psychiatric mystery of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Place to Hide In | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...suspenseful view of the port of Algiers, innocently sleeping in the light of early morning, before the Yanks storm ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Picture, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...food riot in starving Naples, in which the camera plunges into a crowd of women, there catches a frieze of violence as fierce and eloquent as light conversation among the Furies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Picture, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...July, two Eastern Airlines pilots flying over Alabama met a "wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29." Dazzling blue light glared from its windows, and long orange flame streamed out behind. It shot past the airliner at a speed one-third faster than common jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...October, Lieut. George F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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