Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
...theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...
...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...
...slackness or poor work at sea he roars in the voice that has made him renowned as the tough guy of the fleet. But his junior officers and enlisted men know that Bull Halsey is no sundowner: under the bushy eyebrows The Old Man's eyes gleam with good humor. The Bull is a softie, and his men love him as they love few other admirals...