Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight out, Snepp saw "fiery stitching in the plastic window across from me" and realized it was ground fire. "The chopper groped for altitude as the motors wailed in protest. A small radar screen behind the pilot's seat began pulsing with a pale green glow, converting the navigator's face into a ghoulish mask. For three or four minutes the tracers continued reaching up for us, slowly burning out as they fell short ... I thought to myself, How absurd. To be shot down...
Which of us can resist that tinge of pride that comes from basking in the glow of one of our Own--that narcissistic gleam which is sparked when our eyes alight, somewhere in the "Real world," on a Harvard name: Marjorie Garber on the Op-Ed page of The Boston Globe, Robert Reich telling all on Oprah, Jill McCorkle's latest novel staring out from B. Dalton's or Neil's "exausted" mug on the cover of Newsweek. So it was with a feeling of excitement that I headed over to the Hasty Pudding Theatre to watch Demons...
...rosy glow emanating from our healthy Harvard cheeks has dissipated. If you skied or beached over break, you probably look like a leper at this point. If you happened to be among the unlucky half of campus accustomed to taking ill the instant school gets out, just be sure to "please use the utensils provided" in certain public arenas, OK? Is it not enough that you blow your noses in the dining hall? Must you also contaminate us by using your Peter Rabbit silverware set and your Waffle House...
Then, in the pale glow of their head lamps, the explorers noticed two red lines on a cavern wall. Chauvet, a government employee who oversees the protection of the many historically important caves in the region, recognized the markings as "characteristic of the Stone Age.'' What he did not immediately realize-and the world did not know until the French Culture Ministry announced it last week-was that they had discovered an archaeological trove that may rival even the fabled drawings on the cave walls at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain. The spelunkers had found an extraordinarily clear...
...problem doesn't end with pencils and pens. Soon, all those lap-top-pushers (the ones whose faces are lit up by an cerie bluish glow in lecture) will want to fill out their CUE Guide forms on disk. Fortunately, that day won't come until we're all safely out of graduate school...