Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the scene-Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees-and the principals were the same as at that uproarious premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913, and again there was bedlam. But this time the composer stood in his box, bathed in spotlight glare and the audience's acclaim, clasping his hands together like a victorious boxer. The tohu-bohu did not abate until Stravinsky marched onstage to buss Conductor Monteux on both cheeks. Said beaming Pierre Monteux: "There was just as much noise the last time, but of a different tonality...
Blinking in the unfamiliar glare of political freedom, the Japanese torpidly responded to their long-awaited, cherry-blossomed independence. But within three days, they were jarred fully awake. Most rudely jarred were some 300,000 workaday Japanese who poured past the willows and oaks of Tokyo's huge Meiji Park in a peaceful May Day demonstration. In matters of minutes, they were captives of the Communists...
...amazing property of the polarizing screen to cut glare soon won him a host of backers, and the Polaroid Corporation was founded with Land as President. The polarizers were to form the fundamental tool in the development of many new optical projects, many still completely "classified" because of their defense value. Land is the inventor of the Polaroid-Land camera, which enables the amateur photographer to take a picture and see it developed in less than one minute...
...Korea. When the Chinese attacked, he scrambled for a low dike. He was up and drawing a bead on enemy grenade throwers when a burp gun got him across the chest. His comrades saw him slumped against the dike with his head showing, then silhouetted in the brief red glare of a grenade. When they reached him, he was dead...
...blast of whiteness, viewers saw a pinpoint of white, surrounded by an oval of blackness. Three minutes later, the nearer cameras on News Nob were back in operation, televising the mushrooming of smoke as it climbed into the sky. The TV spectacle itself was anticlimactic, partly because the white glare produced blackness on the electronic tube. But the man responsible for the coverage had made television history...