Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience, Jobriath's face looks like a beautiful witch queen's. The blonde hair is short, the profile, feminine. His cheeks are hollow--the envy of any Vogue model. He wears white pants, a silver choker, and white earrings. The stage lights make his skin and body-stocking gleam lavender...
Cambridge is the sort of urban community where opulent dormitories full of expensive stereo equipment gleam only blocks away from extreme poverty and oppression. But causes were not an issue when the crime wave came late last fall. Its appearance was a fact of life, so the rhetoric was that of fear and paranoia...
...permanent alliance of workers and student movements has proved in the past, at least at Harvard, to exist only as a gleam in the eyes seen behind student organizers' bullhorns. But for now, leftist student groups and the 32 lithographers and bookbinders striking the Harvard Printing Office have formed a marriage of convenience around specific issues, if not a true alliance...
Mississippi Attorney General A.F. Summer complained that "this certainly creates an anomaly. The time for payments has been moved backward from birth to conception. I hope they decide to stop there. If we have to begin with the gleam in the eye, who will do the counting and the certifying?" Summer is appealing the decision, as are the losers in all the other cases...
...Federal government soon regretted that treaty. Four years later, a white man discovered gold in the Black Hills, and a flood of white men descended onto Indian land, armed with a gleam in their eyes and a total disregard for the 1868 treaty...