Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huffing with mixed embarrassment and pride, like the father of the bride at a big wedding, Abercrombie put on its first fashion show ever. Under the glassy glare of stuffed animals and the classy stare of fashion writers, five sexy mannequins paraded such sporty ensembles as a corduroy shooting jacket with suede gun patches and shell-case buttons; a polar-bear parka for $2,000; a pleated shooting culotte with snake-proof boots for huntresses with pretty knees; a silver hair-seal parka with hair-seal skates to match; and to keep warmer still-the chicest, sleekest flask, called Little...
...projected one-hour meeting between the two groups broke up after only 18 minutes last night, when chairman Louise Day Hicks ruled NAACP representatives out of order for attempting to discuss de facto segregation. Amid the glare of television lights, the NAACP members walked out of the packed meeting room on the third floor of the School Committee building, 15 Beacon...
Conjury and hypnosis are ancient Hollywood trades, and they have made many a local citizen rich. Small wonder, then, that Hollywood royalty steals reverently these nights to the cave of an Amazonian blonde who has, with a glare of her Nefertiti eyes, stretched Steve Allen and Linda Christian board-rigid across chairs in cataleptic trances. "Nobody can follow her," says Screenwriter Stanley (Pillow Talk) Shapiro reverently. "Not even Frank Sinatra...
Cleopatra. In scarlet letters volted with excitement the notorious name hung throbbing and enormous in the night sky over Broadway. Beneath it 10,000 rubberneckers milled on the macadam and roared at the famous faces in the glare. One by one, smiles popping like flashbulbs, they disappeared in the direction of the screen. What did it hold for them? Surely no Shavian conversation piece could conceivably have cost all that money. Surely no noble Shakespearean poem could possibly be recited by Elizabeth Taylor. No, Cleopatra was bound to be one of those colossal Things that periodically come charging...
...Target. Shielded from the sun's glare by a special awning at the White Sands Missile Range, he saw an Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...