Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paleontologist Gen Suwa was walking across the pebble-covered desert of north- central Ethiopia under the searing midday sun, peering carefully around him for ancient bones. Then he saw it: the telltale gleam of a fossil tooth partially exposed on the rocky ground. "I knew immediately that it was a hominid tooth," says the University of Tokyo scientist, "and one of the oldest ever found...
...refugees agree that much of the most vicious killing was done not by the army but by Hutu death squads, called the interahamwe ("those who attack together"). These are young men in street clothes, armed with anything from a screwdriver to an Uzi to a machete, a dull gleam in their eyes and a whistle around their neck. If one spotted a Tutsi family emerging from hiding and trying to flee, he blew his whistle, and his comrades sealed off any escape. "If you look in their eyes," says Daniel Bellamy of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees...
...Love Central Time all year long!). That's right, I...I...oh, who am I trying to kid? Norma, I'm living in a personal hell. Sure I bed beauties left and right but I don't like it. My swagger and strut, that enticing "let's get natural" gleam in my eye, it's all a facade. I've been writing to you for weeks trying to find some purpose in it all. It isn't there, Norma. I don't want help or anything. Just thought you'd like to know. Captain...
...anymore. At 2:30 in the morning, we realized that we had inexplicably left two pages totally blank.... and Pat, our fearless production supervisor was starting to get restless. "I'm not staying here for you two clowns," he said. Erica just laughed, but I could tell by the gleam in his eye that he was not joking, and Pat is not the sort of person to fuck with...
...that's my neck of the woods, and it's always exciting to get back there," he says with a gleam in his eye. "And even moreso for the Minnesota kids on the team--Kirk Nielsen and Stuart Swenson get a chance to play close to home, and they're pretty excited...