Word: floodlit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...
...bright, waxing moon rode through the racing cumulus clouds above Florida's Cape Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...streets are emptied of the sheep and goats usually being driven to market by Arab tribesmen, are filled instead with foreign cars. This year's highlights: Rome's Santa Cecilia orchestra, two nights of Lebanese dances and village songs. More dramatic than the music are the floodlit temples of Jupiter and Bacchus, which form a backdrop for the performers. Last season there were so many visitors that the government's Department of Antiquities had to move a 60-ton fallen temple block to make room for more seats...
...Leaping from a jet bomber at night at an altitude of 41,000 ft. (and a temperature of -62° F), three Czech parachutists dropped for more than three minutes before they opened their chutes at less than 3,000 ft. and landed on a floodlit airfield. Proudly they claimed a new night group-jumping mark. Previous record holders: Russian chutists who dropped from 36,000 ft., fell free...
Gasping for breath, Thomas Dewey Davis, Jr., 25, of 6757 Dartmouth Avenue, Richmond, came up into the light and air again. He stood waist-deep in the electrically heated water of the tiled, floodlit baptismal pool. Above him was a stained-glass window showing Christ and John the Baptist. Next to him in the pool stood a friendly-looking, greying man-the Rev. Theodore Floyd Adams of Richmond's First Baptist Church. There was organ music, and then both the pastor and the new Christian went to change into dry clothes...