Word: glint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that formal admonition, the Master of Lowell House dismissed the problem of snowballs and broken windows for another winter. If some House members thought they detected a glint of humor beneath the stern formality, Perkins probably would not dispute it. For twelve years he has guided Lowell House with a light but firm hand, and likes the results. House members share his satisfaction...
...gold bangles on the wrists of his socialite wife Alice glint rapidly in the fading light as she knits his socks. Their daughters, Rachel, 9, and Benjie, 6, study comics on the sofa...
...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
...because it closed. A Phoenix Too Frequent was a poor choice for a debut: from the briefest of short stories, Fry had made a very long one-act play. The wit and poetry that glow brightly in his The Lady's Not For Burning (TIME, April 24) merely glint and flicker in Phoenix. But on Broadway Phoenix was as much victim as culprit: it was badly produced, and had to share the billing with something very bad indeed...
...before he quits, he hopes to take a crack at the English Channel--this summer, if he gets the backing. "If you hit the tides right (a glint appears in his eyes) you can make it over and back...