Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flashing. Writing in Nature, Zoologist John Buck and his wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females. In effect, the synchronous flashing becomes mass advertising...
...makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag, a tender love episode, a scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed by a moment of bitter glory when he blows his heart through a horn and dies. His ailment is never precisely named, though he coughs a lot whenever prejudice crowds...
...M.P.S. Astronomers now believe that as much as one-tenth of a supernova's total mass is blown out at speeds approaching that of light, and enters the earth's atmosphere as cosmic rays. A second wave of slower radiation and burning gases causes the supernova to shine with prodigal splendor for weeks or even years until the star's remains gradually fade...
Monsoon rains are already pelting South Viet Nam, but U.S. officers are confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They...
...Never 'talk down' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop, kike, chink, shine, burrhead, dago, polack, bohunk and the like...