Word: glare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon reached its full eclipse, appearing as a dull copper ball, at 11:01 o'clock and remained unchanged until 12:35 when the earth's shadow began to recede. Since the dimout regulations removed most of the glare from the skies and only scattered clouds appeared, the course of the phenomenon was clearly visible in all its stages...
Reconnaissance photos made after the raids on Rostock and Lübeck indicate that this is at least partially the case. They show enormous destruction. Travelers on an airliner from London to Stockholm reported they had seen the red glare of Rostock's flames for 250 miles across the Baltic...
Although the Eastern Seacoast under-went a war-time dim-out last night which will probably be in effect for the duration, the University will only be mildly affected by the anti-glare campaign, chief air warden, Aldrich Durant announced yesterday...
...Navy Court allowed that if any possible blame could possibly be put on Navy men, it belonged, not to brass hats, but to two men far down the line-two lieutenant commanders upon whom Secretary Knox, in an accompanying letter, turned his sternest glare...
...termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...