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Shining Path   /ʃˈaɪnɪŋ pæθ/   Listen
Shining Path

noun
1.
A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade.  Synonyms: Sendero Luminoso, SL.






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"Shining path" Quotes from Famous Books



... beginning to shine in the homes of Mapleville when the captain came to the end of his long journey. A shining path stretched temptingly from Melissa's windows to the gate and the captain followed ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various

... blessing I'd not crave, When my life's pilgrimage is o'er, Than such repose, content, and love; Some shining path that leads above To dear ones ...
— ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS • WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

... erect, but he slid slowly along that shining path. His relatively low speed was not his fault, because he went through all the motions of frenzied flight. His legs twinkled as he ran. But his feet slid backward. He moved with a sort of dignified celerity, running fast enough for ...
— The Ambulance Made Two Trips • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... harmonic displacements and the multicoloured modern orchestral apparatus. Korngold is so receptive that he reveals just now the joint influences of Strauss and Schoenberg. Yet I think the path lies straight before this young genius, a straight and shining path. ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker



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