Word: aurora
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...devil to pay. Radio and telegraph communications get out of kilter, navigation devices turn unreliable. The reason: great gusts of electrons, blasted loose from the sun by cyclonic sunspots, are overcharging the ionosphere. Effects of this high-level ionization are visible to the human eye in the aurora borealis, seen last fortnight as far south as New York and in Britain's Channel Islands...
Cried the Reverend John Whetstone: "It's only an aurora borealis." But most people in the Kentucky mountain town of Blakesburg were terrified. They had never seen or heard of an aurora borealis. Mountain-born and Bible-bred, they thought that the apocalyptic spasms of light which possessed their night sky meant the End of Time. They acted accordingly...
Atmosphere. In Aurora, Ill., George Yingling, moseying around a funeral parlor, decided to shoot himself...
Anne got her mother on the phone in Aurora, Ill., and announced importantly: "Mother, I have something to tell you. If you will tune in on February 3, you will hear Anne McKnight singing in opera under Toscanini...
...when the first check was delivered last week, delicate, greying Mrs. Aurora Aragon de Quezon immediately sent it back. With it went a letter which demonstrated why thousands of Filipinos regard her as a combination queen-mother and patron saint...