Word: glared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LONG as were stuck with talking about potentially volatile topics, it seems unavoidable that people will get testy at times. In a sense, we should be grateful to get by with an occasional hostile glare or caustic remark; at least we don't have to suffer the intolerance characteristic of of more unstable parts of the world, where the most convincing rhetorical arguments are those backed up by automatic weapons...
...duel fought in slow motion by two women who are borne on the shoulders of several supporters and who flay each other outrageously, but at a subaqueous pace. When not engaged in combat, the dancers, some of them with rakish topknots and ) splendidly authentic wrestling gear, mug and glare with a fine appreciation of TV histrionics that never becomes simple mimicry. At a recent performance in Boston, the audience fairly broke up at the sheer bravura of it all. A lot of things contributed to the general satisfaction: shrewd staging, superb timing, movements that were sophisticated for all their mock...
...Halley's comet began its swing around the far side of the sun in early January, it disappeared from view, not to be visible from earth again until after it emerged from the sun's glare in mid-February. Unfortunately for earthbound observers, it was during that unseen passage that Halley's put on its most dramatic display so far. As the comet neared its Feb. 9 perihelion, its closest approach to the sun (about 55 million miles), the searing solar rays caused increasing amounts of material to evaporate from its icy surface. Eventually the comet's enveloping gas cloud...
...mood was tense as the two men, clad in olive and gray and blinking into the glare of television lights, took their seats before a cluster of microphones in a social hall of the Philippine Ministry of Defense at Camp Aguinaldo. Behind them huddled about a dozen soldiers, some in full battle regalia. Outside, at the gates of the ministry, less than five miles from Malacanang Palace, the presidential residence in downtown Manila, heavily armed guards and tanks stood at the ready. When the two men began to speak, the reason for the precautions became startlingly clear, for they were...
...been reunited only a few hours earlier after an absence of twelve years, Shcharansky, 38, told the crowd of well-wishers in halting Hebrew, "There are moments in our life that are difficult to describe. This is the happiest day in our lives." His eyes glistening in the glare of TV lights, he continued, "Twelve years ago I said to Avital on our parting, 'I'll see you soon in Jerusalem.' But my way here became as long and as hard as the Galuth (the biblical exile of the Jews from Israel) because in these years the Pharaohs...