Word: glares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Automobile Manufacturers Association, which announced the new design switch last week, began testing new colors in 1958. It concluded that amber signals are more readily observable by oncoming motorists. The customary white lamps too often get lost in the glare of white headlights at night, or in sun reflection (from chrome) by day. Before the automakers could crank up the change, they had to get 25 states to change motor vehicle laws to allow the use of the amber lamps. Oklahoma-the last state-agreed last July...
...dingy downtown headquarters of Hearst's Los Angeles morning Examiner stepped Managing Editor William A. Townes, 52. Suddenly he was trapped in the glare of television floodlights. Bill Stout, newscaster for Los Angeles station KTLA, had his microphone at the ready. Could Townes confirm persistent reports that the Examiner was about to die? No, said Townes, he could not. Then he added quietly: "I am sad because I believe the rumors are true...
...origins retreated from Adam to ape, man's progress advanced to antitoxins and turbines. But certainly, too, there was a precipitous drop from Disraeli to pestilent drains or from Darwin to shivering streetwalkers. Characteristically, it was an age of gaslight, which lighted the dark with a baleful glare, but produced furtive, disquieting shadows...
...subversives. Suddenly very stern, it now threatens rigid enforcement of provisions in the Internal Security Act of 1950 that forbid members of proscribed organizations to apply for permission to leave the country. Possibly the Department will observe the letter of the Act even more closely, and direct a suspicious glare upon itself, for it is also an offense for government employees "knowing or having reason to believe" that applicants are Communists to issue passports to them...
...more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport three more times...