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Word: gleaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke, you would have thought a man was talking," said the News. To Daily Mirror reporters her voice was "a lilting, feminine soprano" dropping to "a husky, masculine contralto" as she grew tired. All in all, the sight of Christine in the flesh took some of the anticipatory gleam out of the newsmen's eyes. "Her legs, what could be seen of them, were smooth and trim," said the News. "However, the planes of her face were flat, hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Homecoming | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...says, "we in America immediately think he is superior. I have visited Rome, Brussels and Paris, and I think our American modern art has more vigor and fire and life to it." How would he go about helping U.S. painters and sculptors? "Ah,." says Father Lauck, with a missionary gleam, "It's a pity not more American artists are doing religious subjects. The sponsor of so much great art in past centuries has been the Church. It could be again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Missionary | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...talks about it, a strange gleam lights Capp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Even a small satellite could be made to shine at dusk. It could inflate a plastic balloon which would gleam as brightly in the sunlight as a first-magnitude star. This "American star," rising in the west, should make a powerful impression on the peoples of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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