Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faced Ally. The British press fell into a rosy glow of pleased embarrassment. The Manchester Guardian ran an editorial saying that Britons were not all as wonderful as De Gaulle thought. Even the left-wing press, while dutifully remembering Algeria and the French Abomb, generally agreed with the New Statesman's contention that the British public "recognizes that its old ally has two faces and is prepared to give De Gaulle the benefit of the doubt and concede that he represents the one which we admire and respect...
...Both Composers Bartok and Martin anticipated the dreams of the stereo engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine shimmer and glow...
...Brazilians screaming to their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped, clapped and screamed "Bravo!" for a full three minutes, Gosha modestly waved...
...stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable about these childhood memoirs is the total lack of sentimentality. The Edge of Day is a rarity among books: a simple story that derives its glow from the beauty of common truth uncommonly stated...
...NATO's new Paris headquarters last week, the glow of cheer was nearly as bright as the premature spring sunshine that caressed strollers on the Champs Elysées. For one thing, France-Soir, biggest of Paris dailies, reported that Charles de Gaulle had instructed his top brass: "You make arrangements with the Atlantic organization for air and naval cooperation. I personally will settle with Eisenhower the problems of stocking U.S. atomic bombs in France." For more than a year, De Gaulle's open hostility to the NATO concept of integrated Western defense had given the alliance...