Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through her swarmed mechanics, checking her once again. Around and through her walked her pilots, headed by the Army Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing Major Stanley Umstead. For the B19, six years ago no more than a gleam in the eye of far-seeing Air Corpsmen, was ready to fly; within three weeks Stanley Umstead expected to take her upstairs for her first run, after he had finished the ground acquaintance begun two weeks before...
Cloyd Weaver Miller, an Ohio little businessman, is self-appointed gadfly to RFC. Last week stocky, white-haired Mr. Miller, with a crusader's gleam in his glacial blue eyes, laid plans to go to Washington to bring to a pestiferous climax the strangest one-man campaign of harassment ever waged against a New Deal agency...
Leewards to Venezuela. From this eastern outpost the hook swings on south, to the British-owned island of Trinidad off Venezuela's northern coast. Trinidad is an operating base to make an invader's eyes gleam-a bountiful oil and gasoline supply, strategically laid in flank of traffic from South America where he might have a foothold. It would also make an important U. S. outpost, completing the defense set-up of the hook. Its anchorages are deep and wide and its northwest coves would make good seaplane bases. Since it lies well within the U. S. sphere...
Willkie followers, mostly amateurs, went around breathing hard, with a hopeful gleam in their eyes. One thing that made them happy was a widespread feeling that the Dewey drive was slowing up. Here & there delegates openly avowed they would desert Dewey at the first chance. A Gallup Poll, which showed Dewey still far ahead in popular favor (56%). also showed that he had dropped six points in the last two weeks of May. This could not be credited entirely to the Willkie boom: many a crack had been taken at "Toothbrush Tom," and perhaps voters were getting cold feet about...
Maryland. Voters in Maryland's Democratic primary apathetically chose a wealthy china collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws...