Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck me in the face. I put my hand to my face and eyes. I felt blood and raw flesh. . . . The Japs in the trees fired a steady downpour of bullets that chipped up dirt all around us and ripped through our sandbags. ... I strained my eyes for a, glimmer of light, but I couldn...
...small nucleus of six returning lettermen shone in the midst of 55 candidates for the basketball team at its first practice session last night, and gave Coach Earl Brown at least a glimmer of hope for the coming season...
...first place, the symphony had practically no structure or coherence, nor did it make up for this with strong melody or color. The themes were commonplace and thinly stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
...Glimmer for Glamor. Because the clothes of movie actresses are the most widely imitated by U.S. women, the Screen Actors Guild urged more stars to set a thrifty wartime style by dropping glamor for the duration. Actresses were asked to wear cotton, to stick to the standardized WPB silhouettes, to go without hairpins, zippers and metal jewelry...
...estimated that 40,000 people died of hunger in Athens and Peiraeus between last Oct. 1 and Jan. 26. But last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent...