Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane 2,200 ft. over Dayton last month tumbled a bulky Army doctor with a parachute rip cord in his hand, a determined gleam in his eye, and, since it was his first jump, a tremor of 'fear in his heart. For 1,200 ft. he plummeted end over end at 119 m.p.h. Then he pulled his rip cord, jerked upright as the parachute opened, floated serenely to earth, well pleased because he had just made the first scientific analysis of the "subjective mental and physical reactions to a free fall in space...
...deep, rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
...which the score was tied seven times and in which the goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when Hurlingham was addition ally burdened because its No. 1, "Chicken"' Walford, had in a crisis chosen a mare named Golden Gleam which of all the British ponies was patently the worst...
...came to an Iron fence. The regularity of it intrigued him. After a feverish search about the sidewalk he found a small stick. Now he walked along the other side of the walk, tapping every other bar with his stick. The metallic clicking brought a gleam of satisfaction to his deep, intelligent eyes. Ah, this indeed is pleasure...
...glory gleam from wound of grace...