Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enmity of Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through...
...flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said Tough Cop Kennedy: "The main reason why the unlighted streets were not turned into a dark and steaming jungle was the reaction of the community ... In the dark all men were the same color. In the dark our fellow...
...African territories illiteracy runs as high as 90%, and everywhere the Dark Continent is, like no other place on earth, dark at night. After the cook fires are out, superstition flourishes. Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once explained the need for rural electrification by saying, "One electric light drives away the ghosts." The most sophisticated-politicians, graduates of European universities, have solemnly accused their opponents of raising juju against them...
...objects that cast the shadows. When one of them is dragged into the open air and forced to stare first at the objects themselves, then at the agonizing reality of the sun, he fights to disbelieve his senses. So, when their hidden natures are thrust into the light, do the troubled characters of this violent novel...
...Light Infantry Ball, Basso (10) 10. Wake Up, Stupid, Harris...