Word: agleam
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...Billy Graham, agleam in a pistachio-colored suit and white shoes, called to warn him that the U.S. people are gripped by "a fear you could almost call hysteria" and suggested the President proclaim a national day of prayer and humiliation. Mildly, Harry Truman told Graham that the answers to today's problems were found in the Sermon on the Mount, particularly the Seventh Beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Billy emerged pleased; but there would be no national day of humiliation...
...soon as the bus doors opened, even the reddest-eyed wanted to beeline it for the fair's million-dollar midway. They could see the wonders agleam in the sun-the Rolloplanes, the two Ferris wheels, the giant roller coaster, the crazy houses, the Moonrocket and the sideshow tent. But teachers and chaperons had come in the buses, too, and they had a mind for other things. One teacher bluntly told her charges: "You can't ride a thing until you see all the serious exhibits...
Giuseppe was a changed man. One day this week, his shoe-button eyes agleam and his squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...
...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
...first year he could really afford to go to Banff in the Canadian Rockies, or at least to take that big corner room at his favorite Atlantic City hotel. But roaming was out for him. The gas and rubber rules made a mockery of his shiny car, whitewall tires agleam, the top battened down. The hard breathing railroads warned him off; they had all they could handle without the likes of him. If his muscles were still good enough for a bicycling trip, that meant he would probably be drafted before the summer was over...