Word: shine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
...bags containing lighted candles. The street and house lights will be turned off, and families in unlighted cars will cruise through the streets slowly to see the familiar transformed. And in a million other homes in a thousand other places, the carols will ring and the Christmas trees will shine for the season of giving and the ineffable memory of warm, lighted places...
Fans of both teams had better come to the game well-supplied today. Although the sun will shine, the mercury will only reach the 40's. Tonight, cover up for sub-freezing temperatures. The Weather Bureau advises you to check your car's anti-freeze after you get home...
Free to do anything you choose Free to wait tables and shine shoes. Gee, Officer Krupke is a touching, light-hearted tribute to those municipal marvels-magistrates, civil service psychiatrists, social workers, policemen on the beat-who so often, without even trying, are able to develop a mere juvenile delinquent into a mature criminal. But West Side Story goes wildly, insufferably wrong when it insists that society is entirely guilty, that the teen-age hoodlums are ultimately innocent. Worse yet, the picture becomes wildly, immorally sentimental when it attempts the apotheosis of alley rats, broadly suggesting that they...
Judith Beach is disconcerting. Her story is overwritten, but traces of sensitivity shine through the clouded style. Much the same is true of her poetry. To Death is the best, combining good imagery with a skillful interweaving of rhymes and rhythms. She Gives is a little less successful, partly because of some imprecisely selected words (see lines 6 and 11), partly because it is incompletely developed. Quince Tree misses, we suspect because of an intended device which failed...