Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago this little broadcasting outfit, which the men now call "the greatest thing ever to hit Fort Greely" was a gleam in Major Adams' eye. By December, transmitter, turntable, mikes, etc. (purchased with money from a lottery) arrived on Kodiak Island. By January the station was on the air with what the Army calls "horse-blankets" (discs), strictly sweet music for the starved listeners. Soon Kodiakers were filing into the studio with their guitars, mandolins, fiddles, anxious to help...
...theory Cairo is blacked out from dusk to dawn. Actually there exists something between a dimout and peacetime illumination. From about half the buildings lights gleam through the large open windows. Street lamps have been extinguished, but cars have bright blue head lamps. There is little fear of air raids. The so-called warnings are pathetic horn toolings. The other day at high noon the British and American pedestrians completely ignored them...
...problems were licked. As an automaker he was an old hand, getting kind of tired of it. Mass-producing tanks and bombers was new and exciting. The gigantic engineering and production problems took him back to his bicycle-shop days, when mass production was just a bright gleam in his eye. His "1,000 airplanes a day" was neither an idle boast nor a positive promise; it was just good American cockiness-the kind it took to make the first million Model...
...they are more than a novel convenience; they are a necessity. In darkened Britain, during the early months of blackout, the death rate from falls, collisions and other accidents was almost twice that of well-lit peacetime years. Still high, it would be far higher without the wan yellowish gleam of curbs, guide rails, doorways, signs and even pedestrians' lapels and trouser cuffs touched with luminescent pigments...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...