Word: glinting
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...chance of besting Dukakis in November. But because of the Democratic King's victory, and the assumption that Dukakis's liberal enemies will vote for Hatch in November instead of continuing to support King, Hatch--and the Republicans, who were written off as dead two years ago--have the glint of the Golden Dome in their eyes once again...
...case, local districts looked eagerly toward Sacramento as they awaited word on just how hard the tax revolt would hit them. As Brown moved to draft a master plan, some of his aides thought they saw in his eyes the same sort of glint that was there in the days when he beat Jimmy Carter in five straight 1976 primaries. Said one Brown aide: "I haven't seen the adrenaline flowing like this since the early days of his political career...
...dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever--but reaching the end of the page she realizes that the words have slid over her eyes like soft-boiled eggs on a white plastic plate. She begins again with renewed fervor and determination. And once more, the glint of sunlight on the river, the bouncing body that jogs by, the red girl playing a congo drum with Mao plastered on its side, the frisbee that nearly breaks her nose, distract her already wavering concentration...
...intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations to show the historical progress of language, the way its vocabularies have stirred, matured in meaning and eventually decayed. But the logomaniac's great joy in the O.E.D. is to wander through it looking for the glint of old coins: sippet, maumetry, floscule, gimmer, the wonderfully dark deathbird and night...
...that TV served a magnificent function. It authenticated the improbable events and gave them a rich, subtle reality. The attentive world could see the look on Sadat's mobile face - so dour at rest, then suddenly exploding in his quick laughter; could watch the effect on Begin, the glint in his eye; and could see the Israeli children waving Arab flags. When Sadat returned to Cairo, anyone inclined to think - from reading a paper - that his welcome there was staged could watch the jogging excitement of the crowds. As Television Critic Michael Arlen remarks, "TV is a kind...