Word: glare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stablemen & Helpers of America crowded into Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week and sat with eyes glued on the stage. From the side appeared an engrossed little group of men, convoying a towering figure. The audience rose, whistling and roaring. Candidate Roosevelt, sober-faced, in the glare of four white spotlights, still under convoy, crossed the stage...
...civil cemetery of the Federal District of Mexico in a grey steel casket went the body of Leon Trotsky. It was taken out of the casket, placed on a heavy steel cart. The cart was wheeled to a huge crematory, the door was opened, the body pushed in. The glare from the open door of the furnace shone with ghastly brilliance on the faces of Trotsky's three bodyguards, on duty to the end, of his attorney, Albert Goldman, and of the small, meek, devoted woman who had lived with him as wife and servant for 38 years...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...
Fifteen-year-old John Anderton of Nottingham, remembering a German bombers' raid on Liverpool the night before the Samaria sailed, told reporters how it felt to come within sight of the skylit glare of New York City. Said he: "Our first thought was to shout, 'Turn out them lights...
...searchlights were blinding and we were flying entirely on the bomb aimer's instructions. I had my head down inside the cockpit trying to see the instruments, but the glare made even that difficult. Our instructions were not to rush it too much, because of the need for extreme accuracy...