Word: glimmering
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Occasionally there is a glimmer of light. There
...couldn't do any better if, like many a son of a Stoughton by that juncture, you were nine beers gone) --stirred the minds and hearts of all the participants. Caught up as they were in the adolescent joy of it all, they nevertheless recognized in the incident a glimmer of the intellectual plunk Harvard was said to cherish...
Government economists nonetheless see a glimmer of hope for the months ahead. The wholesale price index, which usually leads the consumer index, has remained steady for two months. Urged on by President Johnson, housewives have shown increasing resistance to higher prices, bringing the price of pork down for the first time in four months...
...star runner of this Princeton squad was supposed to be 880-man Terrence O'-Keeffe, the class of the Ivy middle distance corps. But O'Keeffe dropped out of school in February, giving Tiger opponents a temporary glimmer of hope...
...then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner is actually a gentle, restless wanderer, then through his eyes that the acquiescent hash slinger is a woman made...