Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of the Union message and on the budget for the next fiscal year. Nearly 250 newsmen therefore looked sharply, listened closely to the President last week at his 145th White House news conference. They found him looking well, shedding even-toned but sometimes less than brilliant light on a dozen or so subjects before the nation. Among them...
...great deal more than that. If Judge Letts sticks to his guns, the ruling could lead eventually to Hoffa's being kicked out of the Teamsters' presidency. It was the most serious legal step against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun to clean up corruption...
...American holiday offers the happy option of putting Christ into Christmas or taking him out. What makes it this way is that Christmas is an established religious holiday in a country without an established religion, which seems a pretty good compromise between the forces of light and the forces of darkness...
Here I am writing at the desk of my father's insurance office in Hannibal, as the afternoon light fades. "The Education of Henery Lamby...
Over this river there is a moon, but it does not give much light. And I cannot stop thinking... The passport office refused to issue Peter's passport, because she was a transvestite from Brooks House, employed by the Yale Daily News to find out what was shoe at Radcliffe. Harvard rusticated me for getting an E in Fitzway's course. My notes were all on Peter, and Snyde refused to lend...