Word: alight
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
...case Red's stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...
...common touch, Blackpool's history is alight with great names of show business-W. C. Fields. Bea Lillie, Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead. But none of them could rewrite the Blackpool creed. "You can't be chichi in Blackpool" is how one Blackpudlian phrases it. "It's not art for art's sake here. It's art for Pete's sake, and Pete owns the town...
...proteins and similar chemicals. This process may have been repeated billions of times in different places, generating during each repetition many billions of microspheres. Eventually, one of them happened to have in its membrane the proper chemical wherewithal for a dim sort of life. Once this spark was alight, the great parade of evolution, from bacteria up to man, was a natural consequence...
...most worrisome is the plight of the U.S. Negro. As he sees it, the best way to end discrimination would be for Negroes to rise in arms against the imperialists in Washington, taking their cue from Castro's own revolt. "What would happen," he asks, his eyes alight at the possibility, "if the Negroes in the Southern U.S., so often lynched, were each given a rifle...