Word: searchlights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed to catch us in a beam, as though from a searchlight...
Alarm clocks then began ringing, and a siren wall went up. The loudspeaker replied to this with, "Communication between entries of Lowell House is strang verboten." Firecrackers started exploding, and a searchlight from a fourth or fifth story room began to sweep the courtyard...
...supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe can cruise slowly by means of two propellers driven by a small electric motor. A searchlight will seek out whatever sea monsters live in the Gulf of Guinea...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...