Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher who comes to spend the summer with her sister Stella in New Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...
...heat a city the size of Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...
...Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, nurses worked at the desks, hurried soundlessly down hushed corridors on errands of the deep night. A nurse paused at a window, glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms and wards were 65 women and three men, all of them insane...
Cinemactor Clifton ("Mr. Belvedere") Webb, 56, a confirmed bachelor, reflected gloomily on his trials & tribulations during the shooting of Cheaper by the Dozen, in which he plays the father of twelve children: "I was a strict disciplinarian. I have a glare that makes children most obedient. I may not be a family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation...