Word: gleaming
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...cute brunette. You ask her to dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...
...none of these things have progressed beyond the gleam-in-the-eye stage, and the above isn't even at attempt at a blueprint. It's simply what might happen if things work out nicely. No one has had time to do any real planning yet, because of the press of other duties, but two weeks time should see a good deal settled, or at least on that blueprint stage. At the end of his week, the V-12ers will have been classified as a result of the physical fitness test they will have taken, and that program will...
...Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...
...this point one of the secretaries from Cruft went by. The man broke out his song and pursued the secretary with a baleful gleam in his eye. The two rounded the corner on the dead run; the secretary leading by a wave-length. He didn't see the finish, but there is no doubt that radio has a strange and sinister effect...
Boss's Blueprint. By week's end Jimmy Byrnes had determined on a six-point program. Some points were a matter of record, others just a gleam in his shrewd blue eyes. Together, they presaged the most drastic Federal action yet taken to untangle the home-front snarl...