Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squad or so of Greek Cypriots, although there seemed to be no clear target. The troops seemed uncertain about their role. They moved frequently from the front of the huge hotel to the back amid much shouting of orders and replies. In all the confusion there was a glimmer of comedy. When a hotel employee paged a journalist, one of the Cypriot troopers, rifle in hand, joined in calling for him with great gusto...
...glimmer of hope exists for the Brown squad, as most of its wounded will be on hand, if not playing, in the game tonight. Exactly how smoothly the unit will perform together, however, is another story...
With a sixth skater on the ice, the Crimson pressed for the final half minute. With just two seconds remaining on the clock, the referee whistled a face-off in front of the B.U. net and there was still a glimmer of hope. But the Terriers won the face-off and the game...
...Glimmer of Hope. The scarcely unexpected results promise no quick or easy end to Ulster's agony. But the relatively large turnout of voters provides a glimmer of hope for Ulster moderates who want to give the British government plan of having both Catholics and Protestants share provincial political power a chance to work. By and large, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army failed in its efforts to get voters to "Spoil Your Vote and Smash the System," as one of the Proves' newspaper...
...that was thanks to the experimentation of people like Pynchon, William Gass, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover who were busy providing a set of new literary forms aching for new literary content. And now, just in the past year or so, two novels have appeared that make glimmer the hope that the old Genre might be back on her feet before long. Gravity's Rainbow, when it is working, is one of these, Updike's Rabbit Redux is another...