Word: glared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rockets' Red Glare. Overnight the news and rumors that trickled belatedly to China's rear changed from black to rosy pink. In the air-base city of Kweilin-in serious danger from the Japanese offensive-hasty defense works and evacuation of civilians were abandoned. TIME Correspondent Teddy White reported that rockets crimsoned the sky, firecrackers popped and pinwheels whirled, newsboys shrieked the tidings in late extras. At the American air bases where transports had been hurrying out refugees and stores, the grim mood lifted. G.I.s smiled, wiped the sweat from their faces, boasted happily: "We done it again...
...stood weighted down with equipment behind the flight deck, where I could see scores of searchlights spotting other aircraft over the target and see the red glare of ack-ack bursting both high and low. Root checked each station on the ship with a "You all right...
...right into the center of six converging searchlights. By now we could both hear and feel puffs of ack-ack. Root ordered the bomb-bay doors opened, gripped the wheel tighter and said: "Here we go, fellows." He pointed the nose right into the midst of the fiercest glare of lights, the worst bursts...
...stood there in a sweat as the seconds ticked off. The ship was now caught in the full glare of the lights. It moved at bombing speed like a huge, whited apparition in the skies...
...people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...