Word: lit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lit, shadowy, full of menace and unimaginable chances, stretched all around my door the many-peopled streets. I could hear, ominous and muffled, the tides of traffic, sounding multitudinously along their ways. Was I equipped for the navigation of those waters, armed and ready to adventure out into that dangerous world again...
More lights were turned out, but the girls still smiled self-consciously from the screen. At last, in the flattering light of a single candle, the girls on the stage looked lovely but dim. Their televised images on the screen were as bright as if seen in a well-lit room. The image orthicon, 100 times as sensitive as earlier tubes, had actually amplified the light reflected from their faces...
...rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
...Cocktail Hour" & Anagrams. Dr. Stuart was cooped up for 39 months with two others, in three dimly lit rooms in the back of a British mercantile establishment in Peiping. His fellow prisoners: Dr. Henry S. Houghton, 66, director of Peiping Union Medical College, and Trevor Bowen, 59, its comptroller...
...Barnes was headed for London, to report to the Council of Foreign Ministers on the reluctantly postponed Bulgarian elections. Before he left Sofia, spunky, outspoken Maynard Barnes spent two luminous hours talking to Tsola Dragoitcheva, Bulgaria's top woman Communist and top Fatherland Front boss. In brightly lit words he made it clear that the U.S. and Britain would not recognize the new Government unless they were satisfied there would be a free election...