Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge cottonwoods along the river had turned purest yellow, and since no wind had come up to disturb the dying leaves, the great trees stood in chandelier brilliance along the watercourses that veined the hills. Joe had to stop the truck to try to take in all this light...
...Wang's ivory arrived on a Boeing 707 from Burundi. When Chris Huxley, then a CITES official, examined some of the more than 50 tons of tusks Wang owned in Singapore, he found evidence that suggested some of the elephants had not died of natural causes: "A few had light-caliber bullet damage. Some still had considerable bone attached and had obviously been removed rapidly and/or by amateurs . . . a few had been buried...
Washington says the rebels requested only that U.S. forces prevent two units of about 200 men with light infantry weapons from reaching Noriega at his headquarters. The Americans at Fort Amador obstructed the movement of the P.D.F. 5th Infantry Company, which shares the Amador base. American units from Howard Air Force base were positioned to block the nearby Bridge of the Americas over the canal to prevent the arrival of the P.D.F. 7th Infantry Company from its base some 60 miles southwest of the capital. In neither case were U.S. forces challenged...
...securityof the idea of God held an appeal for her. If Godexisted at the very least she would repent and beforgiven; and the most she would be absolutelyabsolved from blame. The time she ahd spent inchurch ahd been restful and contemplative,however. She had enjoyed the way the light hadseemed to crash vigorously into the stained glasswindows only to be diffused into blues and yellowswhich filtered easily into the church. The lightsat in the people's hair as they lined up in thepews. It was the ritual that had driven her fromthe church, the Mass and a sermon every Sunday...
Other potential council issues high-light the fuzziness of the conventional politics-services divide...