Word: glints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past unpleasantness. That came when George was called to the White House to discuss a new tax proposal. President Roosevelt, arguing that the tax would be good politics, said expansively: "Walter, if I know anything at all about Georgia politics ..." Into George's eyes came a warning glint. The President caught the look, laughed sheepishly, concluded hastily: "And I certainly...
...Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking the rabbi's manner of taking snuff, or bring a glint of pride to his bearded father's eyes by citing chapter and verse in a Bible exam. Since he is more prankster than scholar, Sholom's boyhood sometimes seems like a parade of cuffs, slaps and beatings. As one observer has pointed out, "the Jews of Eastern Europe considered...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...
...Brattle. With legs a trifle bowed, your stride will be longer and your weight better balanced for that tiger-like spring into action of which you are, no doubt, totally incapable. Your arms will swing free, hands near your hips for the lightning draw, and the dangerous glint in your steely eyes will warn the world that here is a real mean...
...head start. Last winter, while Cordon was tending to his senatorial business and Oregon's interests in Washington, Dick Neuberger underwent a startling experience that led him into the race for the Senate. Wrote he, recently: "My wife looked at me. She had the same resolute glint in her eye as when she swam across the inlet near Juneau while the water was full of drifting ice floes. 'You're going to run for the U.S. Senate, Richard Neuberger,' said Maurine, 'if you get only two votes -yours and mine. I've made...