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Word: glinting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Linden about his relationship with Wilford, and he won't skip a beat. He'll look you straight in the eye with a glint of genuineness that almost makes you ashamed to have asked the question. Then he cracks a smile and assures you--there is absolutely no animosity between he and Wilford...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rich Linden | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...then the 75 graduates marched in. Many wore donated clothes, and proudly. The bodily signs of high off-road mileage--sallow skin, dull hair--were outshone by the bright glint in their eyes. And Reich was quickly outdone by student speaker Fred McLemore, 34, whose natty gray suit and mustard bow tie were at odds with his story. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard vs. the School Of Hard Knocks | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...just good with guns," comes the reply. With an intense glint in his eye, he begins to list the different guns he practices with at home. He is such an adorable little boy, especially with the little gold earring. He'd make a fine assassin...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: RAINBOW WARRIOR | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...first it appeared to be wayward scraps of paper lying on the dock, but as the Coast Guard cutter Conifer left its moorings last week with the squirming body of a 31-ft., 19,200-lb. gray whale stretched across the width of the deck, a glint of light disclosed the discarded object's true identity: a paperback copy of Herman Melville's Moby Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aboard the Conifer: My, How You've Grown! | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...rites that opened the 18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games. As beach volleyball brought tank tops and bikinied dudes to the Summer Games in Atlanta, snowboarding, most conspicuously, looked to be smuggling a radical edge and Technicolor glint to the mild-mannered Winter Games. With the world-champion shredder refusing to show up, and even the Chinese athletes showing off their backflips in freestyle skiing, it could look as if the I.O.C. were a global subsidiary of MTV. (CBS even hired former MTV veejay Kennedy to do color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Some Like It Cool | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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