Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile route from the airport to his hotel in a geranium-red Lincoln with 100 motorcycle cops leading the way. That night at Soldier Field, 50,000 (not a capacity crowd) cheered him to the echo when he rose-after being driven around the great bowl in the dramatic glare of a single searchlight beam-to make the second formal speech since his return...
...Francisco reacted, from the moment of his arrival, as though every man, woman & child had been given a massive shot of adrenalin. Ten thousand people roared deliriously as he stepped out of his Constellation Bataan into the glare of massed floodlights at San Francisco airport. As he reached the ground, hundreds broke past police lines and surrounded him in a gabbling, jostling, hand-grabbing throng; they stayed around him as an Army band pumped unheard music, while officials pushed & shoved, and cannon banged out a 17-gun salute. It took 20 noisy minutes before the MacArthurs got into their...
...public-address system was blaring Aloha when the big plane pulled up in the glare of newsreel lights at Hickam Air Force Base at Honolulu, twelve hours and six minutes later. There were fast handshakes in the confusion of the midnight welcome, and next day, on a forty mile parade, the city of Honolulu gave General MacArthur a preview of the civic receptions to come-including more applause and cheers than had greeted Harry Truman on the way to his Wake Island meeting with MacArthur six months before...
...nondescript, they carry out the tedious testing of others' ideas, the intricate mechanical drudgery of the laboratory and the industrial plant. But last week Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, and Sobell, an electronics expert-two faceless men out of faceless thousands-were suddenly projected from anonymity into the hot glare of public scrutiny. They went on trial for a farflung, sustained conspiracy to steal the U.S.'s most vital military secrets during and after World War II and deliver them to Soviet Russia. Maximum penalty: death...
...station, Shea and McCombe were led separately into Precinct Chief Vicente Villella's office. For ten minutes Shea sat waiting in a straight-back chair under the glare of lights and eight hard-eyed cops. Then the chief abruptly put down his telephone, stretched out a hand and snapped "Mucho gusto [Pleased to meet you]." He did not smile...