Word: glare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Descending the Hill by way of Beacon Street, we pass the State House and the great houses fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing...
Eyes half-shut to the glare...
...testimony of a Warsaw ghetto revolt leader, the packed courtroom suddenly went dark. Outside, a truck had collided with a power line, cutting off electricity for blocks around. Only a single spotlight powered by an emergency security generator remained on, focused on Eichmann's cage. In its glare, the startled Eichmann turned his back on the courtroom, covered his face with his hand. As a Polish Jew was recounting the deportation of 10,000 Jews to Belsen extermination camp, a balcony spectator suddenly leaped up shouting "Bloodhound! Bloodhound!" Eichmann paled and swallowed hard. As guards escorted...
...April 21). Still, it was a magnificent milestone on man's path into space; it was a signal achievement of U.S. science. And it brightened the cold-war world with a luster all its own. It was a gaudy American gamble, a nation going for broke in the glare of pitiless publicity...
Bainbridge also termed it "important that Russians and Americans don't just glare at each other, but that they talk to each other and try to see what the other man's point of view...