Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shine like a Tiffany jewel
...shoes are said to be waterproof and scuff-resistant and are supposed to keep a permanent shine. Both Du Pont's and Arnav's new material has the advantage of coming in uniform, easy-to-handle rolls instead of in awkward pieces shaped like a cow. Though the new material is thus much cheaper to produce than leather, Du Pont has no intention of damaging its discovery's reputation by putting it into cheap shoes, will sell the material for a considerably higher price than the 40? to 80? per sq. ft. for leather. Though Arnav could...
...spread across 169,300 miles of space, the rings of Saturn gleam through telescopes as one of the most glorious sights in the sky. They seem as solid and substantial as Saturn itself. But astronomers know better: the great rings are really next to nothing at all. Stars shine right through them, and when they turn edge-on toward earth they vanish completely. This should not be surprising, say Drs. Allan Cook and Fred Franklin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. The beautiful rings, as the two astronomers see them, are less than 8 in. thick...
...Central Selling Organization in London and its production fields in Africa, has opened a discreet but energetic campaign to promote the glitter of diamonds to new markets. In the U.S., which traditionally buys one-half of the world's gem diamonds, jewelry has lost some of its shine-people who can afford diamonds often prefer other luxuries, such as trips abroad. De Beers is concentrating on the newly affluent Europeans, subjecting them to a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. As usual, the company's name appears only in tiny, sedate type in the ads. It doesn't need...
...nearly the speed of light. Some of its material slows down as it tangles with the flat disk of stars and gas that make up the galaxy. It is the parts that move out from the top and bottom of the galaxy that escape to form turbulent clouds that shine as powerful radio sources for hundreds of thousands of years...