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Word: glazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost to the goal. Then the witches' wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Top | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...broke off as he saw in Pendrake's eyes the defensive glaze one assumes when listening to a religious or political fanatic. He extended a hand and said, "Goodbye, kid. Lucy's expecting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: On with the Dance | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Champ had swung-a full roundhouse blow. And it was plain to the newsmen on the Dewey Special that the challenger had been hit hard-as plain as when a boxer drops his gloves and his eyes glaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Countercharge | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...tops] of the feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bodies Need Food | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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