Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April. He was 55, but he looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there...
...passionately oppose this agreement." On the front bench, Morrison jerked around to glare. Loyal Laborites jeered. That night Attlee decided to put party unity above his convictions. The order went out to every Laborite: if there was a division, abstain...
Midnight Man. Now, in the wild glare of series fame, fans discovered that Dusty was a ballplayer right out of a book: Ring Lardner's Busher, magnificently self-assured, not one bit abashed by the big leagues, thoroughly convinced that he and his big bat could win a World Series by themselves...
...Senate is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom than the popular branch." One hundred and sixty-seven years later, when the floodlights blazed on the Army-McCarthy hearings, wisdom, system and coolness seemed to have vanished in the glare. But this week, out of a tidy office on the fourth floor of the Senate Office Building, came a ringing reassertion of the U.S. Senate's dignity...
...President ducked out. of the heat and glare of the TV lights and paced the floor slowly, hands behind .his back. He looked stricken momentarily when he found that his glasses were missing from his breast pocket, calmed down when he remembered they were in place on a walnut desk in the studio. A technician gave the two-minute warning, and Ike took his position in front of the desk. Two easels, out of camera range in front of the desk, supported stacks of 3-by-4-ft. cue cards, designed to allow him to get through the speech without...