Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
Leaving their wounded bleeding on the floor inside, the defeated garrison of Cantrell-Mansfield followers filed out, hands high in the air. Under a glaring spotlight beamed on the damaged entrance, the onetime law of McMinn County squinted wearily at a jeering, taunting...
...were different, too. Much of the change was reflected in the groom's expression. Marriage no longer seemed like one more hurried step in a process calculated to get him out to an island where the Japs could blow his head off. Occasionally a groom still got the spotlight-as last week when Byron ("Whizzer") White, Colorado's All-America Rhodes Scholar and naval hero, married pretty Miss Marion Stearns at Boulder (see MILESTONES). But mostly husbands-to-be could let their knees knock in peace...
With Swegan's hand slowing his hitting down to a weak two hits for nine trips to the plate in this week's games, Bill Fitz stepped into the batting spotlight with a sizzling six hits for eight times at bat Tuesday and Wednesday...
There is no known way to turn infrared light directly into visible light. But it can be done indirectly by a complicated electronic device which closely resembles a television tube. The infra-red rays from the black-shielded spotlight hit the target and are reflected back (see diagram). Entering the telescope, they are focused by lenses on a special screen at the forward end of the tube. This "image" is not itself visible, but it knocks streams of electrons out of the screen...