Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberated prisoners waited long past midnight in a jammed terminal at Dulles International Airport, near Washington. Black supporters of the Rev. Jesse Jackson broke into spirited song, creating a revivalist mood. Mobs of reporters and photographers jostled for position. Finally, klieg lights flashed on and in their glare stood Jackson, resplendent in his safari suit and surrounded by a group of released American and Cuban prisoners. A grateful woman rushed tearfully toward the black minister and threw her arms around his chest. Jackson flashed his familiar grin...
Kerry stands to benefit it this summer if the Senate race becomes a low-profile affair, hidden by the media glare of the Olympics, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, and even Michael Jackson...
...summer after my father's freshman year, Harvard's president, James B. Connel '12, looked to the future in a speech before the American Chemical Society. "The year 1984," Conant said, "does not glare with menace in my crystal ball...
Does the year 1984 glare with menace at Harvard? I don't think it does: Since my father's days here. Harvard has obviously progressed by enormous leaps towards fostering a more tolerant undergraduate community. Still, if 30 years down the road I should happen to be the father of a member of the class of 2014, sitting in the Yard and trying to remember the details of my own commencement. I hope the progress will be just as obvious...
...rest of the audience and I were convulsed I wondered how to reply. A new list of salient points began to form I recalled my father's tale of a classmate and fellow resident of Massachusetts Hall in 1927-28 who, when irritated by the glare of a bare lightbulb burning over the entrance to Harvard Hall, would extinguish the light with a carefully placed shot from an air gun he kept in his room. Or another parental story of the pandemonium occasioned when someone put Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops...