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Word: glares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights, at 5,945 ft., the drills came up smudged black with oil. Next morning, a gusher shot 100 ft. into the air, the first flowing well in Alabama's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Alabama's First Gusher | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Army of salesgirls, the dinner shift, marches by, glaring at kids. Floorwalker with tie glares at me. Woman grabs my arm. "Come along, Forsythe." I glare at Forsythe. Forsythe imitates fire siren. Escalator marked "Down" appears at my left elbow...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

...overhead light, directly above the surgeon's table. This has two advantages: it keeps the lens turret out of the surgeon's way, and it keeps him out of the camera's way-no surgeon gets in his own light while operating. To cut down reflected glare, some of the shiny instruments have been given a dull, gun-metal finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: It Keeps You Watching | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Under the glare of television lights, Harry Truman was speaking to the nation and over its head to the U.N. Assembly meeting in Paris about the West's "fresh approach" for disarmament. Conceived ten months ago by the State Department for presentation to the U.N.'s Paris meeting, the U.S. plan had been endorsed and adopted by France and Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Offer to the World | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...bottom of a well) saves the town from mass riot. This is an implausible touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Well | 10/26/1951 | See Source »

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