Word: gleaming
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...even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom - not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long...
...Afghans are willing to wait until the bombs fall before they dash to safety. The border crossing at Chaman, for one, could hardly be in a more inhospitable place. On one side lies Afghanistan, where the hazy, distant hills gleam strangely, as if the earth were glazed by the heat from Pakistan's 1998 nuclear test on its side of the border. There are only a scattering of thorny shrubs on the landscape. A few Pakistani frontier guards use stubby whips to hold back a tide of gaudily painted trucks, donkey carts loaded with gnarled metal scraps (about all that...
...Beautiful, for Patriots' dream, that sees beyond the years Thine Alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears...
...Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices are also assimilating that other cardinal virtue in a watchmaker's character: patience...
...stomach, she's a babe. But don't hate her because she's beautiful. Since my mom is kind of conservative, the black mini-dress, size zero (women don't like women who wear size zero) would have to go before I took her home. But she has a gleam in her eye (albeit glass) that says: "Pick me, we'll party...