Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream, When from the leafy forest glades the brigand daggers gleam . . . And yet there is no need to fear or step from out their way, For more than half the world consists of bigger rogues than they...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...
...called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...
Neither age, pain, nor liquor had dulled the intent and raffish gleam in his eye. His distrust of property men, doctors and small children was undiminished. His voracious love of life and laughs had not failed, and he still eyed the world with the spurious heartiness of a man with an ace up his sleeve. But his body was flabby and old, and his fiery, bulbous nose had become a shocking badge of suffering. Last week, after 67 years, death finally hoodwinked W. C. Fields, the noblest confidence man of them...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...