Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of great unrest and movement all across the land, and I was of it and in it and on it and with it. My sonnet was half finished; my soul was a traffic light turning from red to green. It was the time, and I packed a toothbrush and a comb and a cold can of Schaefer beer, and I went to my mother's side...
...followers and the way of the New World experiment. The only embellishments of the day were made for tombstones and portals, and one John Hunt reflected the colony's aesthetic esprit when he complained that the stained glass of popish cathedrals kept out the light...
...petition is now being circulated which calls for a referendum on the Council's existence, and in light of recent Council actions it will receive widespread support. However, the proposed substitute medium of student representation would be an Inter-House Council with adequate Union Committee membership--almost exactly what was accomplished by the recent action of passing the Student Council constitutional changes...
Nonwhisky liquors have also bounced up, nearly doubling their market share since 1949 to 23%. The reason again is mildness: odorless, light-bodied vodka has jumped from virtually nothing to 6% of liquor sales. Scotch and Canadian whiskies have sliced into U.S. distillers' markets until imports are 13% of total liquor sales...
Rich Pixies. Before her rich and talented friends went, like Poet Rupert Brooke himself, "rose-crowned into the darkness," life was a fabulous affair for little Lady Diana Manners. She spent part of her childhood in the "celestial light" of Bedfordshire, where "the clouds cast no shadows," and at her grandfather's Belvoir Castle. The plumbing there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid...