Word: glare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week U.N.O. was dragged from its nursery and looked at in the glare of new responsibilities. It did not measure up; it never had. That conclusion left two unanswered questions: 1) could U.N.O. ever grow into a force strong enough to bring order to a lawless world? 2) if not, what substitute was feasible...
Last week a heartening number and variety of people dared to look directly at the atom's horrid glare. Rose-tinted goggles were still preferred, but at least the world was no longer hiding its head in the atomized dirt of New Mexico and Hiroshima...
...glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp.) The woman walked on. "This man I recognize." (It was Fritz Klein, Belsen's doctor.) She moved on down the line of defendants, picking out a dozen others...
...Important Things. For six long years the news had come from overseas. In war-jammed cities the important things of existence had been steel shavings coiling from a machine tool, the glare of a welding torch, the sound of riveting gun and typewriter, the brain fag and weariness of overwork. But now the U.S. experienced the quiet clarity of eye and mind which comes after a long fever...
...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...