Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls "an orgasm of uncontrolled expression." But whether he chooses to admit the fact or not, Mathieu's paintings are as elaborately controlled as a professional golfer's game. Moreover they do reflect the real world around him, especially the technologically molded world of speed, smoke, glare, and vast perspectives...
...Miles's advice: green filters for sun glare should be lifted out of the way at night, and colored glasses should be left in the glove compartment...
...genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
Racing to catch the terrorists, a patrol of the famed Black Watch cornered 60 of them in a wood near the village of Thika. The Scots set fire to the wood, and in the glare of burning trees, their armored cars raked the area with heavy machine-gun fire. The Mau Mau fired back, and in the very first volley, brought down the patrol leader with a homemade rifle. A veteran of Burma, he bore a soldierly name: Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, only son of the late Field Marshal Earl Wavell...
...Then on to the face of Lhotse, the second witch, a moon-cold, 4,000-ft. cheek of ice and blackish stones. Ten days of chopping here, with every breath a ton to lift, and then a breakthrough-two tiny figures bobbing far above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans, as they slog out for the south summit at least...