Word: gleaming
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...France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
...theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle. But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong...
...Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...