Word: shone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conditions were good for an 11:30 a.m. race. A warm sun shone on the slightly undulating lake water, which was licked into small waves by the moderate headwind, but was not choppy enough to make rowing difficult...
...Atomic Energy Commission's letter suspending him. He wrote a 43-page autobiographical sketch, because "the items of so-called 'derogatory information' set forth in your letter cannot be fairly understood except in the context of my life and work." Oppenheimer's letter shone with literary brilliance; the strength of his personality leaped out from the page. It was especially moving to men and women in the same age bracket as Oppenheimer (he is 50). Many men ten years older or ten years younger did not fully understand him. His letter was an account...
...flowing over the lichen rocks of Phobos. Mac Marty felt his pulse quicken." There are also adverse affects of mating on distant planets, but only villains are susceptible. "Lucia's baby was born. The baby came at night. It did not live more than a few hours. But it shone in the dark...
...Author Philip Wylie's "backpedaling" act as heralded in your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed by the floodlight of logic that shone from his Generation of Vipers . . . one wonders how Wylie can abandon his brothers . . . PAUL W. PYLE Rochester...
...Strauss spoke, the fog lifted and the sun shone, drawing an audible gasp from the crowd and changing the scene from monochrome to bunting-bright Technicolor. Mamie Eisenhower and her party walked out on the narrow christening platform. High overhead, perched on a girder, a yard worker sang out, "Be sure and hit it hard. Mrs. Eisenhower." Mamie did. The First Lady swung hard, smashed the chrome-sheathed bottle of champagne expertly against the bow and, as the big green and black boat began to move down the greased ways, she cried, "I christen thee Nautilus...