Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy Company's orders were to sit tight near the British consulate until morning. A drizzling rain had begun to fall. We wrapped ourselves in ponchos and tried to get some sleep but it was hard to sleep. The sky was alight with the red glare from half a dozen fires in the harbor area. Naval guns thundered intermittently. Now & then we heard bursts of small-arms fire and the flat, deadly sound of mortars...
...efforts to clear a wartime buddy charged with murder, Lawyer Montgomery shocks the village of Lesser Hamilton by filching a bobby's bicycle, and outrages the Lord High Sheriff of Milkshire by tossing off a glass of rare old sherry in one gulp. Under the disapproving glare of a wigged and powdered judge (ably played by Felix Aylmer), Montgomery brings
...sticky-hot, soundproofed little White House broadcasting room, Harry Truman smiled a quick, reassuring smile toward Bess and Margaret. Then the President of the U.S. stepped up to the solitary rostrum in the glare of the floodlights, flipped open his loose-leaf notebook, and swam into the radio and television focus of the world...
...those directly under an air burst there may be no warning; there is nothing they can do, anyhow. But if the bomb bursts a mile or more away, it gives its own warning: the 100-sun glare of the fire ball. Then, says AEC, don't look-duck. If you are in the open, drop to the ground and curl up so as to cover your arms and hands, face and neck as much as possible. Even paper or cloth will cut down flash burns; stepping into a shadow may reduce heat radiation below the danger point...
First the gasoline erupted into a tall, twisting pillar of bright flame. In its glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness. Then, while seven fire trucks pumped Foamite into the flames, the bombs went off, blasting a crater as big as a bungalow. Bodies were blown back across the field, the fire trucks rolled up like the tops of sardine cans, the trailers and their little picket fences were smashed, as one witness put it, "like a giant had stepped...