Word: shone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University, joined fellow philosophers Sunday in paying tribute to the late Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy Emeritus, who died last Tuesday. "The death of Alfred North Whitehead was a double less to me as to his multitude of friends and admirers. His gracious and radiant personality shone throughout all he said and did. In addition we have lost an intelligence that illuminated every subject it touched. He was a great friend and great philosopher because he was a great human being...
...days this was especially true of the Yardlings. They were dead-eyes. Against Tech, Brown, and Nichols they looked relaxed and easy, didn't bother to hustle the ball in under the basket but plunked it from where they found it. In practice and against weak opposition they shone...
...Arab side of no man's land, the magnificent old stones of the Wailing Wall, worn smooth by centuries of kissing by devout Jews, shone brightly ; in the brilliant sunlight. There were no Jews there, and the three British constables guarding the wall said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar...
What the Moon Saw. Shortly before midnight, calm had returned to the Arch of Triumph. The moon shone down dully on the litter of broken bottles, rocks, clubs and park railings strewn over the road. Little pools of blood and dirt had collected, here & there, in the gutters. Walking home down the Champs Elysées, where nightclubs were open and operating as usual, I heard a familiar voice near me: "Chauds, les Marrons, chauds!" It was Anatole, back in business. The little men of Paris were carrying on. All over France, the little men, who detest and fear...
...Dust. In Monza, Palmiro Togliatti threatened revolution. Speaking while a red setting sun shone through the reddish dust stirred up by a crowd of more than 500,000 workers, the Communist leader attacked the U.S. and the De Gasperi Government...