Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, and porters waved their whisk brooms politely over departing passengers. The country which rushed by outside the windows had an amazing look of vigor and opulence; new automobiles gleamed on highways, new houses stood expensively in muddy yards. At dusk the homing passenger could glimpse the never-ending glimmer of colored Christmas lights in streets, stores and farmhouses. From the air, the U.S. seemed even richer; there was a look of treasure in the jeweled electric glitter of its cities seen by night...
...lights of outdoor Christmas trees-from the 65-ft. Norway spruce in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (see cut) to front-yard evergreens in ten thousand U.S. cities and towns-began to glow and glimmer brightly in the night...
...Little Glimmer. Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson reported that the steel industry has volunteered to increase supplies to freight-car builders by more than 50%, beginning early next year. Builders raised their production goals to 14,000 new cars a month by next July, giving Johnson the first "glimmer of hope in the freight-car situation...
...soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along. If so, that was a German chance...
...year 529, the civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino-a steady light, on a steep hill, which was ultimately to illuminate all Western Europe. In February 1944, seeking out a German observation post, U.S. bombers demolished the abbey, and put out the light...