Word: starlite
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...following morning, under a starlit sky, Vinoba Bhave's disciples rose quietly and loaded their meager belongings in a truck. Ninety minutes later, wearing a grandmotherly shawl over his dhoti, Bhave marched briskly out of the schoolhouse and headed straight down the village road at a brisk pace, looking neither to right nor left. A man with a lantern raced ahead of Bhave to light his way. Following after came some three dozen wraithlike women secretaries and husky disciples-including the barefoot son of a wealthy cotton-mill owner, a nephew of India's Finance Minister, and landowners...
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and continue to do so, for "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going...
Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...
...starlit stillness of 5:30 a.m., a lonely New York policeman stamped his feet and tried to beat off the chill as he stood watch outside Ike Eisenhower's upper Manhattan residence at 60 Morningside Drive. A black Cadillac limousine rolled through the empty streets and pulled up at the curb. Two U.S. Secret Service men got out. One walked up to the cop, chatted with him and drew him away from the door. The other slipped inside. A moment later, with the cop's back turned, a quick striding man, with his felt hat drawn...
...dark-haloed Judas, a grey, long-armed figure of Christ on the Cross, a group of stiff, formalized saints seated at a round table for the Last Supper. Wrote Critic John Russell in the Sunday Times: it "is not the turbulent board meeting of Leonardesque tradition, but a starlit gathering of saintly rustics. [The window's qualities] put it at once in the company of the great European windows...