Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
There, where France's shame had been twice compounded-in 1870 when Napoleon III surrendered to Moltke, in 1940 when Rundstedt's army poured through a gaping rent in Corap's line-Rundstedt sits with his staff. On the breast of his tunic gleam bright ribbons won in that and many another triumph-Poland, Russia, the Lowlands-and from his high collar dangles the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. But Gerd von Rundstedt has little time for dreams of past glories...
...Jersey, since 1764, Atlantic coastwise mariners have navigated by the gleam of the Sandy Hook lighthouse. Once in 1776 a U.S. Army captain smashed the light to hamper the movements of British ships. Last week, for the second time in 178 years, the dimout regulations doused the light again...