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...glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp.) The woman walked on. "This man I recognize." (It was Fritz Klein, Belsen's doctor.) She moved on down the line of defendants, picking out a dozen others...
...Important Things. For six long years the news had come from overseas. In war-jammed cities the important things of existence had been steel shavings coiling from a machine tool, the glare of a welding torch, the sound of riveting gun and typewriter, the brain fag and weariness of overwork. But now the U.S. experienced the quiet clarity of eye and mind which comes after a long fever...
...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
...automobile headlight with an eyelid, to eliminate all glare by drooping on the approach of another...
...this glare, New Yorkers could now seek relief from their normal confusion among Republicans, Democrats, American Laborites, Liberals, Fusionists, Socialists, Socialist-Laborites and Communists - if they were so minded...