Word: glare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...
...others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
...bald pate glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
Fashion's New Look got a withering glare from square-jawed Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, 54, of the University of Illinois' professional schools (TIME, Jan. 13).Tight corsets, growled Ivy to a group of Jacksonville, ILL. colleagues, are a direct cause of stomach ulcers in women. Moreover, he added, if he could get $5,000 and 40 monkeys together, he would put the monkeys into tight corsets for two years just to prove his theory...
...eight-coach train clanked to a stop at a crossing on Havana's outskirts. In the darkness thousands were waiting; they had been waiting since early afternoon. Spotlights from Army jeeps and armored cars stabbed at the dark coach windows. In the glare 800 defiant revolutionaries waved at the crowd and shouted: "Death to Trujillo." Turned back by a Cuban gunboat, the men who had sailed from Cuba to overthrow Dominican Dictator Trujillo were returning under guard, and to Havana they were heroes...