Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With classes over, academic obligations fulfilled, and released of responsibility, Leslie Greis seized the chance to play the most maddening of games on a perfect day on the Cape. Basking in the pleasant late-afternoon glow, she muses about the grand old game of golf. "It's a mental game, dominated by inconsistency, a sort of constant inconstancy." That's the reason Greis attacks the game and attacks it with a passion...
...retired geologist who now cultivates a 40-acre apple orchard outside Yakima: "I was working on an irrigation ditch. The sky got dark, and I thought we had a hailstorm coming. Then it got deathly still, and all you could see through the darkness was the purple-pink glow of sheet lightning." Said Chuck Taylor, a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Pasco, Wash., who was at the Hanford nuclear complex 140 miles from St. Helens: "It looked exactly like a tornado bearing down...
...kind of event. A hall packed with politicians, Democrats for the most part, of course. Near nonstop oratory from 35 speakers. His beloved Muriel caught in the glow of spotlights and spontaneous affection. But Hubert H. Humphrey is gone: the Worcester, Mass., tribute last week was a New England scholarship fund raiser for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the late Vice President's alma mater, the University of Minnesota. Among the battery of speakers was a particularly close friend from Senate days who had shared the ticket in Humphrey's 1968 presidential race. Embracing...
...drama, now replayed by thousands of Cubans in their 110-mile trek across the Straits of Florida, can still raise a glow of patriotic nostalgia in Americans. It is "a nation of immigrants," after all, as John Kennedy wrote 100 years after his Irish great-grandfather left County Wexford to become a cooper in Boston. But today Americans are having trouble rising to the occasion. Drifting into a recession whose depths they cannot yet judge, skittish about plant closings and lost jobs, about oil prices and taxes that already seem too high for Government services that provide too little, Americans...
...always in black, white and gray. He jogs at dawn-in a black-and-white track suit. Associates call him the Black Prince. Says Ron Martin, editor of the Hearst chain's Baltimore News-American and a former colleague: "He just goes for clothes that shine and glow in the dark. But it's also a statement of a kind. It's him saying, This is me, and I dare you to do anything about...