Word: penumbra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constitution is utterly mute on the subject, but Douglas heard echoes in the Bill of Rights (the first eight amendments): "Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras [fringe areas]," he said, "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance." According to Douglas, "zones of privacy" emanate from the First Amendment's "penumbra" right of association, the Third Amendment's prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" without consent in peacetime, the fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and the fifth's privilege against sel-incrimination...
...child buyer (Lester Rawlins) purchases highly intelligent "specimens" for United Lymphomoloid, a vast penumbra of a corporation with top-secret government contracts and a futuristic 50-year program for "leaving the earth." If the parents are willing to sell their child, the "specimen" goes through a memory-deleting process and submits to a chilling form of surgery that "ties off" the five senses. He is then on a par with his peers-computers...
...cowardice known only to himself and his dead comrades. Between 1918 and 1939, he profitably combines sensational political journalism with the business of being an undercover agent of the Communist Party. He has a charm of a kind, and Lord Pontypool, for one, cannot live without him. But the penumbra of lies and bad faith under which he lives infects all his acquaintances. His wife, Daisy, becomes a dipsomaniac...
...free water that flows around it. With it goes the sense of its relation, near and remote, the dying echo of whence it came to us, the dawning sense of whither it is to lead. The significance, the value, of the image is all in this halo or penumbra that surrounds and escorts...
Viscount Hailsham, the government's leader in the House of Lords, described the Communist conspiracy in memorable phrases that might possibly lodge in top Britons' memories. "In matters of security," he said, "we live in the penumbra of a ruthless and diabolical war, the like of which has scarcely been seen in Europe since the time of the Borgias...