Word: glare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Exeter's Black students, privy to an insider's knowledge of the goings-on of the campus, are concerned about the atmosphere, the glare of the national spotlight has done little to enhance Harvard's image...
...will a ninth-grade dropout who plainly relishes the glare of world publicity relinquish it all to lead his followers into prison? "Koresh is blowing smoke," says Wayman Mullins, a criminal-justice professor and hostage-negotiations trainer at Southwest Texas State University. "It's notoriety and grandstanding...
When the Houston Astros began playing in the Astrodome in 1962, the new stadium had a glass roof. But the glare from the transparent panes blinded players. So some panels were covered over with white paint...
...laughs, and there are plenty, come mostly from Scott's trademark vocabulary of gestures for impatience -- the wide-eyed glare, the bellow, the thundering crash of his heel for emphasis as he tells the long-winded young woman, "Short! Short!" About two hours shorter would have been best for this whole two-hour enterprise...
...place is far too bright for any self-respecting late-night dive. The friendly blinks of the video games--still there, thank goodness--get lost in the incandescent glare of the firefly lamps. Mirrors on the wall? Swiveling stools? Fake-wood tile? Cleanliness? Tommy's is supposed to be grimy, not cheesy...