Word: glistening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
...Sanders Theater this weekend. "Amphitryon 38" is a sparkling theaterpiece that has delighted audiences and playwrights through thirty-eight versions, beginning with that of Plautus--down through Moliere, Dryden, to the late Jean Giradoux. It has possibly become more polished each time, for this most recent telling could hardly glisten more than it does...
...busiest man in New York's granite State Capitol last week was its boss, Governor Thomas E. Dewey. In eight months, he had come back from darkest political limbo to glisten again in the Republican constellation. In the last 30 days alone, Tom Dewey had studied, signed or vetoed a record 1,065 bills-some of striking importance...
However, this was not the occasion of excitement. The Captain's eyes were riveted on the flight deck from which he had launched 45 strikes in a period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games...
Hero Pokryshkin worked his way from the ground: he began as a mechanic at an airfield, shifted to an aircraft factory, took up flight training. On his blouse glisten the Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union, three other Soviet orders, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal...