Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard, clipped ping. Signals from a smooth beach or hidden sand bar are drawn out, sound for all the world like someone scratching granite with his fingernails. And as if all this were not enough, an automatic pen-and-ink recording is made of all the signals that shine in the scopes and sing their peculiar modulations from the loudspeaker...
Every Sunday now, rain or shine, a blue bus jounces into Alamadi. Children swarm into the street, shouting: "The doctors have come." The bus brings 16 medical students, a dozen doctors, two nurses, and boxes of medicines and ointments, hypodermics and surgical instruments...
Collector's Items. Modesty, false or otherwise, does not disguise Sarnoff's power and success. His chill blue eyes shine with impatient energy, his boyish, scrubbed-pink face radiates cockiness. All 5 feet 5 inches of his bullnecked, bull-chested figure bristles with authority and assurance. He dresses with conservative, expensive elegance, even carries a gold frame to hold matchbooks...
...President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine to the U.S. that after he got home he asked Perón to give him the Washington assignment...
...California cop (Van Heflin), checking a routine complaint about a house prowler, takes a shine to the complainant (Evelyn Keyes), a nervously bored housewife whose well-to-do and aging husband works as an all-night disc jockey. Loyal but lonely, she resists Heflin as long as she can, finally succumbs to him in an affair carried on against the background of her husband's chirrupy voice plugging commercials on the radio...