Word: sunlights
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...rainbow, as every schoolboy knows, is formed by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. Optical engineers have known for some time that an artificial rainbow can be produced by passing light through certain crystals. An ingenious wartime application of this phenomenon is a rainbow gunsight...
...sparkling sunlight, Britons looked up at the endless parade of planes bearing war to Germany. In every heart the hope was high that here, at length, was Winston Churchill's "last big heave...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
When Irving came to write the formal account of his travels, he couched it in the style of his Father Knickerbocker history, and much of the savor was lost. But his original jottings are like glints of sunlight on the unspoiled rivers of the young land he describes...
...Lighthouse, a jagged, violent, almost blinding evocation of the Maine seacoast in high sunlight...