Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kankoro (the government workers' union, mostly railway and communications employees) were out for a 15% pay increase and a year-end bonus of two months' pay instead of one. In Tokyo's mauve smog, the ruddy flames of the strikers' torches and the yellow glow of their Japanese lanterns mingled with the downtown neon lights. Blue-helmeted police grinned at the Kankoro paraders and chatted amiably. Chances for a favorable settlement were good: Prime Minister Yoshida's conservative coalition government knew that the workers needed the money...
...Churchill's tremendous history of World War II, which he modestly calls "my personal narrative." In this volume, the thunder of military crisis is past; the tides of the war against Germany have been turned at Stalingrad and El Alamein, and the book is suffused with the glow of anticipated victory. The chronicle begins with Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy, which opened the land approaches to Germany and made Hitler's defeat certain, though not easy, quick or cheap. Churchill tells the closing episodes of the battle story fairly placidly, with a minimum of criticism...
Along with the Olympian glow, there is another dominant note, the dark note of Churchill's growing concern for the shape and fate of the postwar world, his fear of Russian appetite for territory and power. The word "tragedy" in the title refers to the split between Russia and the West-the breakup of the "Grand Alliance"—which Churchill says he foresaw long before the end of the conflict. "The advance of the Soviet armies into Central and Eastern Europe in the summer of 1944 made it urgent to come to a political arrangement with the Russians about those...
...football record this season has cast a self-satisfied glow over the College which even the holiday week has not dispersed. But with this new strength, understandably a source of pleasure to H.A.A. officials, has come reports of some related weaknesses in their department. When the Faculty Committee on Athletics meets in several days, tickets--their distribution and subsequent use--will head its agenda...
...center of town, "Glitter Gulch," the greatest concentration of inert gas in the world, now casts a neon glow for 30 miles into the desert. Along Highway 91, on which the Californians stampede into Vegas in their Cadillacs at the rate of 20,000 each weekend, lies the Strip, a celebrated three-mile stretch of real estate bounded by seven enormous, luxury hotels. The Strip represents a capital investment of $40 million, and is incorporated (in order to escape municipal taxes) as two townships. Their names: Paradise A and Paradise...