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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of dispute. In Los Angeles last week Simmons told his version of the story. First, he bought a key to his cell by bribing a guard. Next, an accomplice smuggled in a nun's habit, complete with rosary beads and pancake makeup to darken his light complexion. On Sunday he put on the disguise, stepped out of his cell and joined a crowd of women visitors leaving the prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: No More Adobe | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...fringe stand the odd-balls and yahoos, some of whom never get closer to a book than a bet but ready to light the fuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Watches Harvard | 4/17/1969 | See Source »

surfacing off-campus are gut-wrenching questions and fresh declarations blooming in the clear light of hindsight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Watches Harvard | 4/17/1969 | See Source »

...Each light was in turn dismantled and packed up. With each dismantling, the room got darker. Tim sat on a bench next to the nearly dead fire. He looked at no one. He said nothing. He was totally in shadows...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

After several trips, Tommy had taken everything up to the road. Now the room was almost totally dark. We had found some tiny holes in the wooden ceiling, and it turned out that these holes were lights controlled by a dimmer near the door. We turned them on, and pools of pale light fell on the flagstone floor. No one spoke; everyone stared out the glass doors or at the floor or at nowhere in particular...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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