Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship, and waited for the chief to come and tell us the plan of the day. I would try to guess, before going topside, if long shadows would lie in front of me on the grey hull, or if the early morning sun would make me squint at the glare off the blue waves. Of course there was no way to tell; the ship just steamed in circles, in the same area of the Caribbean, for 22 days...
Students also presented a position signed by 143 Tower residents, or more than half of the population there, objecting to the new lights, which they say cause too much glare in the rooms...
...above California's Mojave Desert, as the space shuttle Challenger fired thruster rockets to steady its attitude. Then, after a wait of about three minutes, ground observers glimpsed the unlighted shuttle. Silently it glided into view just 200 ft. above the end of runway 22. In the glare of blue xenon searchlights, Navy Captain Richard Truly, the mission commander, flawlessly guided the orbiter, nose up, to its first nighttime landing. Challenger's arrival at Edwards Air Force Base last week, at 12:40 a.m. California time, ended a six-day flight that drew raves from NASA officials. Crowed...
...film flashes fro and to in both time and style, alternating the fluorescent glare of the late 1960s, as Daniel (Timothy Hutton) searches for the truth about his parents, with the hazy twilight glow of his parents' day, when spellbinding romantics saw a golden future for American Communism...
DiBerardinas said that Harvard has tried to reduce the glare by increasing room lighting or moving terminals away from a windows. To alleviate the placement problems, he has recommended that the VDT's be located at a specific distance from the user's eyes, so that his forearms are parallel to the floor DeBerardinas also suggested occasional breaks in the workday...