Word: glare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...
...flashed. All traffic in the westbound tube was merged in one lane. Down the other in the opposite direction sped a wreck truck from the New Jersey entrance. Because all motor lights must be extinguished before entering the well-lit tunnel, the wrecking crew was not blinded by the glare of traffic. Quickly the smashed coupé was dragged out. Normal traffic was resumed in 20 minutes...
...Vagabond last night was roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...
...footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite in his remote retreat, providing a possible barrier forever between him and his child, when he summoned officers from Hopewell...
...heard from. Out from the naval depot at Gosport sped an alarm. Navy men scurried from their homes, from cinemas, from pubs, from dance halls. Minesweepers, destroyers, every available ship put out into Dead Man's Bay. Searchlights dug into the fog, were reflected back in a sickly glare. Soon after midnight trawls struck an obstruction. News was flashed to every city in Britain; everyone breathed easier. Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered divers down at daybreak...