Word: gleaming
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When God made the Southern woman . . . He wrought with the gold and gleam of the stars, with the changing colors of the rainbow's hues and the pallid silver of the moon. He wrought with the crimson that swooned in the rose's ruby heart, and the snow that gleams on the lily's petals. Then glancing down into His own bosom He took of the love that gleamed there like pearls beneath the sun-kissed waves of the summer sea, and thrilling this love into the form He had fashioned, all heaven veiled its face...
...Moatsie stayed in Moscow, but for two weeks "cried [herself] to sleep every night and couldn't keep any food down." Moatsie kept going. Russian women enviously fingered her American corset. "A naughty gleam" came to the eye of a fellow correspondent when Moatsie was shown wounded Russian soldiers lying naked in healing mineral baths, and she cracked: "I am prepared to testify that the Germans aren't hitting below the belt...
Recognizing the first faint gleam of Allied victories as their golden opportunity, isolationists in Congress are eagerly preparing for an all-out fight over post-war policy. They remain undaunted by the results of their stand up till now. Although still tenderly nursing wounds from last December 7, already they have met the opposition in one skirmish--the fight over the Panama Lands Bill...
...leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic-a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, watery-eyed and old, and his regime, for months largely fictional, seemed indisputably through...
...field events that really bring a gleam to Jaakko's eyes, especially when Pete Garland is doing his stuff. Star in shot put and discuss for the Freshman team this spring, Garland broke records with a discus throw of over 140 feet against Yale. Very much present in these events are the famed Fishers from Andover, while hope among the summer squad in the broad jump is John McConbrey. In the seasoned remnants of this spring's Varsity. In the Sophomore stars, and in a crop of new Freshman who are strong in runners and weak in field events...