Word: shone
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...When cheering and berating, they pronounced the terminal “r” in “Nomar” and “Mueller.” On the Red Sox hats they’d folded into rally caps, each “B” shone, gules, against dark-blue backgrounds. Disgusted, I turned on my heel and ascended from Waka. “Never trust a man with a new baseball cap” is an axiom I’ve just made up. I hope it gains currency...
Kazan rose from the class he later re-created with such acuity. He was born Elia Kazanjoglou to Greek parents who immigrated to America. He acted in the Group Theatre, then shone as the director of plays by Williams, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller. In 1947 Kazan co-founded the Actors Studio, which spawned several generations of serious stars. His direction of Brando in On the Waterfront and James Dean in East of Eden defined and sanctified the image of the beautiful, battered outsider...
...Harvard shone in the field events, recording five victories. Senior Mike Armstrong won the discus, while sophomore Kris Hinson finished second in the shot...
...Viewpointe III: An Evening of Premieres. Classical ballet is no different in this sense, except that the human urgency is pushed under the surface, and the performance is layered with requisite grace and poise. The eight originally choreographed dance vignettes in Viewpointe, most appropriately categorized as modern dance, shone with immediacy, purpose and undeniable skill...
...agreed not to show the faces of Iraqi POWs, which would open the prisoners to "public curiosity." But by now hundreds of Iraqi POWs have been shown onscreen and in print (including in TIME). In one worrisome story, aired March 22 on NBC Nightly News, a camera operator shone his lights in the faces of kneeling, bound Iraqi captives. "As I reach over here," said correspondent Kerry Sanders, leaning in to pick up a POW's food packet, "you can see that the U.S. military has provided a humanitarian daily ration." Explains NBC News president Neal Shapiro...