Word: glare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late look at the ice-battered Viking. Flames flared from the ship. Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears. The Viking had exploded, was blazing. By the ship's dancing glare the woman saw those things coming toward her. Some skipped from block to block. Some crawled. Some rolled into the water. Two days later some 60 seamen succeeded in crossing the broken ice, in reaching the radio station's shelter...
...ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When the other inmates heard the bursts of fire, they united in one great long groan...
...Pilsudski, complete with private car and sword, was in 1927, when he flabbergasted professionally peaceful Geneva. Arriving in full panoply at the League of Nations Secretariat, Poland's Dictator made for the League Council room, soon confronted Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister of Lithuania, fixed him with a baleful glare...
Stouts. As he often does, William Bushnell Stout, famed builder of Ford metal transports, flew last week at Dearborn, Mich., with his daughter Wilma, 19, in his own Fleet biplane. The glare of sun on snow blinded him as he glided to a landing on Ford Airport. The rolling plane struck a rut, nosed over, administered severe headcuts to Father & Daughter Stout...
Orange machinery will glare conspicuously against jet black floors to eliminate accidents. So that his men will hustle, Mr. Simonds is having his factory walls painted light green, a combination of energizing grass green, ultra-violet-reflecting blue, cleanly white. Because manpower tires, lags behind machinepower, the Simonds sawmakers will listen to an interval of stirring music at the fatigue hour (two hours before quitting time). The efficiency, industry, ingenuity of the sawmakers will be graded by men who watch from sus pended overhead walks. A similar building is being planned as a temporary exhibit at the Chicago Fair...