Word: shining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table and chair. Primed with coffee and cigarettes, he would type out poems till 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. When his mother opened his door in the morning, calling out "Rise and shine, rise and shine," as Amanda does in Menagerie, stale smoke billowed out, and she would some times find Tom sprawled across his bed still clothed...
Weather does not always favor the celestial navigator. Far up where modern jets fly (up to 40,000 ft.), heavy clouds are rare, and the brighter celestial bodies generally shine through thin, high cirrus clouds. But at twilight, when the sun drops just under the horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several...
Ross, by Terence Rattigan, shadows the elusive psyche of T. E. Lawrence. As the hero, Actor John Mills makes a stagy script shine...
...every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
...strife-torn world, tottering on the brink of complete destruction by man-made nuclear weapons, a free and independent Africa is in the making, in answer to the injunction and challenge of history: 'Arise and shine, for thy light is come...