Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever recall, and the night entailed a good deal of work for the crew in handling hundreds of rounds of ammunition when the ships in our task force opened up rapid salvo fire on the unsuspecting Japanese. In surveying the results of our night's work in the light of the next day, however, we were very pleased with ourselves...
...jerkwater traffic traps set to catch and fleece U.S. motorists, the most wondrously efficient was a fast-flicking traffic light in southeast Georgia's tiny (pop. 2,100) Ludowici.* The Ludowici light, which has brought the American Automobile Association more complaints than any other light in the U.S., hangs astride the intersection of two heavily traveled highways: State 38 to Savannah and a combined U.S. 25 and U.S. 301, which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known...
...waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
Particularly effective is Holbrook's timing. He takes time out to light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...
...people of passionate conviction, important in the world of fashion and art. As portrayed by Lois Marshall and Thomas Hayward, the lovers seemed like the uncertain adolescents of Blue Denim. They sang well, though the round, supple tone of Miss Marshall is well known and pleasing, as is the light, lyric vocalism of Mr. Hayward. The orchestra stumbled through the score...