Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night had been seven years long, but now China could see the first glow of dawn. Brigadier General William H. Tunner's transport planes were flashing over the Hump, one every two and a half minutes. Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help...
...Ministry of Fear (Paramount), as Graham Greene wrote it, was a thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...
...democratic countries. Congress, Secretary of State Stettinius, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the A.P. and the U.P., the Democratic and Republican platforms, and officials of most of the United Nations have resoundingly endorsed it. But last week it suddenly appeared that this universal rosy glow might be only the precursor of a red sky at morning, portent of stormy weather...
...Executive Director Kent Cooper. It singled out for criticism Pressman Cooper's recent statement in LIFE that, as a first step to world press freedom, preferential transmission rates should be abolished. The Economist observed: "Mr. Cooper, like most big-business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when all barriers are down the huge financial resources of the American agences might enable them to dominate the world. His desire to prevent another Goebbels from poisoning the wells will...
...jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they had replied, "Thank...