Word: glared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera would be O.K., but how about a snowmobile? As the day approaches, the spirit settles over them, too, like fresh snow on a busy town. Parents come round last, rushing from toy stores to cocktail parties, muttering about the cost of evergreen trees, chilled by the cold glare of Christmas bills to come. By Christmas Eve, though, everybody is a willing conspirator...
That seems unlikely. The uproar over his Iranian observation was the latest in a series of mishaps that have troubled the start of his campaign. He entered the race earlier than he had planned, with his organization in disarray, but under the glare of constant publicity. From the start he had trouble dealing with abstract questions such as his idea of how to assert leadership. He explains: "There is a problem moving from the day-to-day life of a Senator, where you are involved in the details of legislation, to a campaign, where the expression of issues is quite...
...hear complaints and bring charges against wayward judges, it now found itself faced with the ultimate test, a probe of the supreme court. Under instructions from California's judicial council, the commission was required to conduct a public hearing, and it launched one last June, under the glare of television lights, after a five-month closed inquiry during which it examined documents and took depositions. For the next four weeks, five of the justices and 13 staff members presented a picture of the California Supreme Court as a place where personal pettiness and inefficiency ran rampant...
...Distance of a Half a Kilometer," a nondescript man dies at his dinnertable, his face plopping forward into a bowl of pea soup. Not as cosmically reverbrating as, say, Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," this story has a black-and-white bluntness that sheds a fascinating glare on its subject...
...difference between what Ernie Christian does for his clients on a daily basis, and what he has done for Chrysler is that one is done in the calm obscurity of the Joint Tax Committee's staff meetings, the other in the public glare...