Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this light-hearted and heavy-handed intrigue goes unchallenged, the study committee will have become another small soapbox for campus partisans. A group which potentially can carry on a serious, disinterested study of an honest international problem will have fallen prey to the petty machinations of undergraduate politicians...
...machine gun also fires 7.62-mm. ammo, replaces light and heavy -30-cal. machine guns of World War I vintage. The first true infantry assault gun of its kind, it can be fired from bipod, tripod, hip or shoulder, weighs 23 Ibs. (v. 30-40 Ibs.), is designed for quick replacement of barrel...
Augustin Jean Fresnel lost his job as an engineer with the French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many...
...slim little light-foot guy with his gay, ageless grace had a good excuse for the jitters: this was the first time he had put on a TV show of his own. But aging (59) Dancing Master Fred Astaire needed only to walk into camera range to demonstrate that he is still attuned to his old rhythmic magic, still in charge of his old, easy charm...
When the church fails to raise up prophets, McCord feels, the world raises them up. Who are such secular prophets? Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment (but not Tolstoy-"there was too much sweetness and light about him"). Also Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before...