Word: glinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...
...total to date: 137. At Lake Success, the President's remark moved Russia's Andrei Gromyko to a glint of dangerously Western humor. Said he: "It seems [Truman] is well ahead...
...whole thing seemed out of tune to Vag. Last night's rally had been all wrong somehow; none of the usual breezy blitheness of the past weeks, when coaches and captain had primed him with confidence and brought the brave glint of defiance to his eyes. He had tried, all right, coming out, to Holyoke Street with a little bottle and lots of euthusiasm; but there were discouraging gaps in the ranks of morale-boosters on the big steps which no amount of cheerleader gyrations could replace...
...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...