Word: glared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent employees, Breuer found a functional solution: a Y-shaped structure (without air conditioning) that would give maximum light and air for the 600-odd offices. The elevators, stairs and toilets were grouped in a central service core at the axis of the prongs. To cut down glare from floor-to-ceiling windows, Breuer incorporated a variety of sunshade devices (horizontal sun-louvers, vertical slabs, extended brackets holding panes of thermal glass) that varied according to the various sun conditions and enriched the façades with glittering patterns...
...night the sky over ten thousand villages glows red and gold with the glare cast by countless primitive blast furnaces of mud brick. In the fields lanterns as numerous as fireflies cast a softer light over "shock troops" fighting "night battles" to bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour...
...jovial scene. President Iskander Mirza and his new Premier, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, sat having tea together for the benefit of newsreel cameramen. Like the good friends they were, they joshed each other, and when Mirza noticed that the general was blinking in the glare of strong lights set up by the cameramen, he chuckled: "You've got to learn to be an actor." Two and a half hours later that evening. President Mirza was stunned to discover that General Ayub Khan was a better actor than he had thought. Three lieutenant generals appeared at the presidential palace, informed...
...tune up with snatches of preliminary air strikes and landings. There is the expectant, esthetic hush as the carrier task forces rendezvous west of the Marianas. Finally, the downbeat of H-hour sends the landing craft streaking toward the beaches of Leyte and the full tympanic rumble and brassy glare of combat...
...began to have that sinking feeling. Man and moment came together in the fifth game, with the Braves basking in the 3-1 series lead. Switch-Hitter Red Schoendienst lined a drive toward left. Elston Howard took off with the crack of the bat, ran straight into the murderous glare that makes left field at Yankee Stadium the toughest sun field in the major leagues. Diving to his knees, Howard sprawled forward, stuck out his gloved hand, and came up with the ball that had looked like a sure base hit. Howard scrambled to his feet, gunned a strike...