Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winnie himself was in fine form. He looked better than he had looked in months. His hands, gently clasping and unclasping as he stood before the crowd, had about them the same pink and cherished look that made his face glow with majestic infancy...
Around the horseshoe table, behind their national name plates, sat the guardians of peace. Their assistants clustered about them, attentively bent forward, ready to leap into any possible breaches with a saving statistic. Under the bluish-white fluorescent glow, Andrei Gromyko sat erect, somberly garbed as any banker, reading in that flat, husky voice which has been described by several American women as replete with sex appeal...
...atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
When the bar closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...