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Word: shone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of one of the most palatial hotels in the world, a very young man was accustomed to sit on a bench which, when the light fell in a certain way, shone like gold...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: 'The Nephew': Bathetic Optimism | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Leontyne Price contracted to sing five roles: Leonora in ll Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Voice Like a Banner Flying: Leontyne Price | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The 35th: John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...week's end, police arrests of Sikhs rose to the hundreds, and aroused Sikh leaders called on their followers to rise up and court nonviolent arrest until every one of the 500,000 Sikh families had a son in jail. High over Sant Fateh Singh's hut shone a solitary red electric light. When the light goes dark, it will mean that the holy man has died. And when that happens, said a high Indian official, "there'll be a pukka riot, you can be sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Seeking Sikhs | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...varsity ace was Carter Ford, who contributed to every victory. Lehman, Munnell, Marshall, and Kimball, the other mainstays, at times shone and at times...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: 'Homeless' Varsity Yachtsmen Cruise Through Year With Respectable Record | 11/29/1960 | See Source »

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