Word: glimmerous
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...hero for what he tried to do, it never for a second palliates what he was or why he failed. Its Wilson is an obstinate, opinionated, frozen-faced idealist who trampled on his friends, spat on his enemies, and so recoiled from "politicians" that he never had a glimmer of how to cope with them...
...face of these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...
...this was grim news for France, there was one glimmer of hope in it. The more Vichy succumbs to Germany, the more tenuous becomes its hold on the man charged with holding its empire together: General Maxime Weygand. Ever since October 1940, when he quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies...
...fall short. Distributed wholly at the discretion of the University and with no chance of being cut off at its Washington source by party politics or anything else, Harvard's N.Y.A. money will serve a worthy cause. After five years of doubtful darkness, the Corporation has snatched at a glimmer of light for the problem of needy scholars...
...stage favorite of the '705 and '80s; at Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England. Her persuasive charm, plus her talent, enchanted audiences. When she made her debut at 16 (as Juliet, at Macauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky.), critics described her as "a wonder of awkwardness" with "a glimmer of promise." She retired when she was 30, at the height of her career...