Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, in the face of the cagers' fourth loss in their last five contests--the lone triumph since Thanksgiving break a 86-50 drubbing of a clueless MIT squad last Tuesday--Harvard did manage to salvage a glimmer of hope for the future...
...Chris Cringle" I was able to locate is an inmate in a Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...
...prison. Each had faced the possibility of multiple life sentences. Now, John would technically be eligible for parole in ten years, Michael in a little more than eight. But prosecutors insisted that the father is not likely to be freed soon. His attorney concurred. John has only "a glimmer of hope" of getting out "before he dies," said Bennett...
...Papandreou, any glimmer of improved Soviet-Greek ties is an important bargaining chip in his jousting with Washington. Yet the Soviets were cautious in dealing with Papandreou. After meeting with him in Moscow, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Greece's positions on disarmament were close to the Soviet Union's, but they refrained from harsh attacks on the U.S. or NATO. So, for once, did Papandreou. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets have behaved quite subtly. They're hoping to exploit Greece's differences with its allies, but they know if they push...
...California: A Glimmer of Hope...