Word: glows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where only by a cigarette's glow...
...John Glenn made a run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Wally Schirra appeared as a commentator and in commercials on television, Frank Borman took over a vice presidency at Eastern Airlines, and Al Shepard has made lucrative connections within Houston's business community. In fact, once the glow of fame wears off, some astronauts have found it painful to slip back into anonymity. "You know, the honeys stop doing handstands when you walk into a room, that sort of thing," says Mike Collins, who is personally pleased to be free of that artificial lifestyle. Adds Pete Conrad, Apollo...
...flowing between Angela and her cheering audience as she stood with Abernathy at the podium. Angela Yvonne Davis is many things to many people, but she is something special to the black Southerners of SCLC, and they are something special to her. There was a warm paternal glow in the pooly black eyes of Ralph Abernathy as he looked up at the long, lithe and gifted young women smiling beside him. As one delegate who watched then put it later, "Angela had come home...
...master craftsman would wind up his 11-piece watch and for 48 minutes simply observe as it methodically ran to perfection. Adjustments or tuneups were unnecessary. The watchmaker could just sit back and witness the precise action and movement of the pieces and enjoy the warm glow that a sense of accomplishment brings...
...people of Canarsie are 95% white, mostly Italians who started settling when this was still a marshland lit by the glow of municipal trash fires, and then Jews who moved in to escape the increasing number of blacks in adjoining Brownsville. They are mostly working and lower-middle class (college graduates: 6.6% ; average income: $12,303), proud of their neat brick houses. Canarsie, then, is typical of the defacto segregation in Northern cities (New York is 21% black, but some schools are 95% black or 95% white, depending on the area), and so it was in Canarsie that school officials...