Word: glints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sullen, glint-eyed men collected in murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to talk with big, easygoing Sheriff Willis McCall. "Willis," said one,"we want them niggers...
...week's end city educational authorities, with a defiant glint in the eye, dared Goldstein to do his worst. Said Dr. Paul A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of schools: "I see he's going to pick our books for us! He is not ... We're just going to continue in our regular, slow, somewhat dumb schoolteacher fashion to do the best we can for the children...
...recent works. A standout (not in the show) was The Carafe (1942), a dinnertime still life in black, brown, blue and beige. Braque had ingeniously illuminated the canvas with three different kinds of light -the silvery gleam of a spoon, the watery sparkle of a carafe, and the glint of fish scales-all successfully simulated by bare patches of canvas used in contrast to the surrounding depths of color...
...Hero." Two hours later, as a belt of pink light appeared around the edge of an umbrella-like overcast, MacWilliams spotted his first landmark-the Huai River, a glint of grey on a black ground. On the plain below, the first signs of China's civil war appeared. The orange flashes of shell explosions pocked the grey blanket of half light. Just south of Suchow's loess hills, five villages arched in a semicircle burned brightly...
After a week and a half of watchful waiting, James B. Russell 2GB now has a glint in his eye and may soon have a new Ford in his garage. Russell is the student who is calling Fred Allen's bluff by asking reimbursement for a new Ford he might have won had he not been listening to the comedian's program two Sundays...