Word: lits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
...disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
...more immune from the ravages of inflation than are the "decadent democracies. Evidently a considerable number of Russians are not above turning a quick ruble by somewhat questionable methods. Evidently some Russians rather fancy the idea of playing capitalist. Otherwise, the Council of Ministers would not have found lit necessary to announce the issue of new currency beginning tomorrow...
...trip's most somber moment came when Mr. King visited the Canadian military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.* It was dark when he got there, in a cavalcade of cars that slithered over slippery roads, but automobile headlights lit up the rows of 1,800 white crosses. The Prime Minister placed a wreath on the central monument. Then, head bared to a cold rain, he walked slowly along the rows, reading the names on the crosses. When he left for London to attend the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, Prime Minister King carried a memory of Canada's fighting...
Crimson flares lit the way last night as the sixty-seventh Varsity football team retired into Dillon Field House in the traditional manner of the final home practice before Yale. Coach Harlow wound up the ceremonies on Cambridge soil by viewing his A, B, and C squads in turn as they ripped off ten fast plays apiece before retreating to the showers...