Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angle slowly changes, he watches for a tiny glitter. It may be only a bit of quartz or a chip from a broken pop bottle, but when he sees the glitter, he dares not move his head. He just stares rigidly so as not to lose the gleam, while his wife, who has been waiting for orders, follows his directions and picks up whatever he has spotted. This sedentary system has yielded 42 diamonds...
...years passed before competing Celanese Corp. hit the market with an almost identical plastic developed by its own chemists. U.S. Steel recently developed a new, economical "thin tin" plate-only to find other steel companies out in six months with a thin tin that customers liked better because it gleamed brighter; Big Steel is now copying some of its competitors' gleam-making methods. Sunbeam's new electric skillet was imitated so widely that the market was saturated within a few years, and Squibb's electric toothbrush is getting the same treatment...
...gleam shines from the eyes of track coach Bill McCurdy when he contemplates the potental of the 1963 spring track squad. Despite the loss by graduation of seven lettermen including captain and ace miler, Mark Hamlin, this year's varsity is a good bet to become one of the best Crimson teams in recent years...
Bright with reflected sunlight, and spread across 169,300 miles of space, the rings of Saturn gleam through telescopes as one of the most glorious sights in the sky. They seem as solid and substantial as Saturn itself. But astronomers know better: the great rings are really next to nothing at all. Stars shine right through them, and when they turn edge-on toward earth they vanish completely. This should not be surprising, say Drs. Allan Cook and Fred Franklin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. The beautiful rings, as the two astronomers see them, are less than...
...faint gleam of hope shines on the varsity basketball team's horizon for the first time in three weeks--it could win a game. When the Crimson travels to Providence tonight, it will find a worthy opponent in the Brown Bears--a team which plays almost as erratically and neptly as the Crimson...