Word: glittered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life I've dreamed of coming...
...workshops of Rome came a shower of rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, buckles and tiny busts. When the capital of the empire moved to Constantinople, its jewelry became garish and showy; and when the barbarians swept away the glory that was Rome, taste made its final surrender to superficial glitter. In the 1,000 objects in the Milan show, vanity and art started out as allies, ended as enemies. But rarely has the jeweler's hand produced objects of such intimate charm as it did when the alliance was in full flower...
Seasonable Start. In many places, today's Christmases are still rich with those old homey flavors-though White Christmas threatens to supplant Silent Night, Christmas trees glitter with baubles, bangles and winking lights that Grandfather never dreamed of, and, for some, dinners at Howard Johnson's have replaced the huge old feasts...
...much bigger than I expected, and his large, broad face swivels slowly around at the audience, alternately pointing sharp nose and sharper chin at text and people. His hair parts, clerical-tightly, very neat; and his steel-frame glasses glitter and twinkle angrily. He stoops a little, like an old professor, and stands reading without a gesture. The tone and what he is reading give one the sense of listening to the words of a great stone oracle. All this makes him sound much more formidable than he really is, for what makes this stone oracle in black tie seem...
Despite the glitter which the Associates furnish for their customers, the operation remains relatively simple on the inside. For example, Johnson still washes the glasses in his bathtub and keeps twenty cases of mix in his room because there's no other space for storing them...