Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...quite profound. I know. I grew up in a home much like Lieberman's. We too did not use electrical devices on the Sabbath. As a result, when we sat down to the last Sabbath meal toward the end of the day, we relied for illumination on light from the windows. As the day waned, the light began to die. When it came time for the Hebrew recitation (three times) of the 23rd Psalm, there was so little light that I could no longer read. I had to follow the words of my father as he chanted the Psalm softly...
...introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then you see him withdraw into himself, switch on the autopilot and plod along. And when that happens, his capacity for work is never diminished, but his capacity for joy--the light touch a politician needs--gets lost...
...mining towns, the scarcity of women helped bordellos flourish, but "Butte boasted of having the prettiest women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
...went to the emergency room of Philadelphia's Hahnemann University Hospital complaining of an earache and dizziness. Concluding that he had a sinus or inner-ear infection, doctors treated him with antibiotics and sent him off within an hour. But while their treatment might be considered reasonable in light of what he told them at the time, the 87-year-old former Chief Executive subsequently returned to the hospital with classic stroke symptoms...
...like PayPal and eMoneyMail, are becoming the standard method of settlement on Web-auction sites. Buyers deposit money in an online account that transfers funds to the seller when a transaction is completed. Unlike credit cards, though, most P2Ps have not been offering fraud protection. That's changing in light of scams in which customers thought they were buying things like hard drives and digital cameras but got stiffed. Varying levels of protection are now available...