Word: glared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glasses & Orange Balls. There was talk of installing blue lights to counteract the sun's glare. The frantic Astros sent out for special red sunglasses and colored baseballs: orange, cherry, yellow. "The orange balls are even worse than the white," reported Manager Lum Harris. Suggestions poured in. "I've had 89 phone calls and 130 wires from as far away as Juneau," Richards sighed. The most sensible came from Johnny Keane, whose New York Yankees arrived in Houston to play an exhibition against the Astros: "Paint the roof," said Keane, "or play all the games at night...
...space-suit plans call for exchangeable equipment: a massive propulsive backpack for use in weightless space, and lighter suits emphasizing oxygen and cooling apparatus for exploring the moon. These suits have not reached the rigorous testing stage, in which men will wear them in a vacuum chamber under the glare of simulated space radiation. Less ambitious suits for emerging from Gemini capsules are farther advanced. Like the suit worn by Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum...
...brushed past his followers, nodding greetings, squeezing a familiar hand or two, reflecting the glare of admiration with infinite majesty, and disdain. His aides lined up behind him and the people behind them. The first five rows seemed uncomfortable on Jackson St. Their ties were knotted, their nails polished, their smiles distant, their cuffs pinned with large pearl links. A cordon of yellow-helmeted aides formed a wedge, King motioned, and the police lines--so immovable the day before--melted. The march began...
Writing in 1926, ten years after the Easter Rebellion, O'Casey can answer these questions, because he can see Ireland's causes in a harsh historical glare. His characters uselessly throw away their lives in a meaningless fight, meaningless because of their empty motivation. Afraid to admit its own fear and surrender at the barricades, the Irish Citizen Army faces overwhelming British forces, and falls...
...airport, and so was the press. Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer of the film she had come to make. "That's Jeanne Moreau...