Word: gleams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend him money...
Duveen's new headquarters shows other signs of the times. Now the firm's $10 million collection, heretofore seen only by customers with a million-dollar gleam in their eyes, will be on rotating display downstairs, where anyone with bus fare can come in and look it over. Customers who mean business will still be shown upstairs to velvet-hung rooms where they can look more meaningly...
Harry Truman had worn a harried and rumpled air during General MacArthur's three days of testimony before Congress. But when he appeared for his press conference last week, his navy blue suit had a knife-edged crease again and his shirt a starched and snowy gleam. The presidential grin had seldom been wider...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
...have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...