Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are not breakable-Noles illustrates this by bouncing a plastic eye on the floor, catching it on the rebound without a scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because they reflect less light; 4) plastic eyes do not explode (glass eyes sometimes do, from changes in temperature); 5) plastic eyes keep their color and stay shiny longer than glass eyes (unlike glass eyes which are usually put in water overnight, they are often worn constantly, get little handling). Price...
...with whom he makes dates he never keeps or from whom he buys the liquor that is alternately his salvation, his personal devil and his end-all − all these people are seen only from Don Birnam's view; they are important only in so far as they reflect his situation or supply the background for his lyrical ad ventures...
...Articulate General Eisenhower does indeed talk with his shoulders. TIME's talk, as Father Coleman suggests, may occasionally reflect TIME's lifelong admiration of the Homeric epithet...
Witness Mr. Churchill slouched comfortably in a well-stuffed piece, apparently of period design, a piece that typifies a bygone era. . . . Yet Mr. Churchill does not seem to reflect its attributes. Rather, his pensive and somewhat uncomfortable expression would indicate his realization that the elegance that was England is no more, that she will no longer regally dominate the bulk of the world's thought and the world's commerce...
Henceforth most U.S. warplanes will go into action bright and shining except for the dull black patches brushed on surfaces which reflect sunlight into airmen's eyes. Only "where tactical considerations require it in combat zones" will camouflage be used any more...