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A glimmer man ( also rendered as " glimmerman "; ) was a somewhat pejorative name unofficially, but almost universally, applied to inspectors who were employed by the Alliance and Dublin Consumers ' Gas Company, the Cork Gas Consumers Company and other supply companies in the smaller towns and places in Ireland to detect the use of gas in restricted periods during the years of the Emergency from March 1942 and in some places as late as 1947.
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The inspectors were reputed to be particularly intrusive when carrying out their duties as evidenced by the Phil Chevron lyric in " Faithful Departed " which suggests that in addition to the " boogie man ", one can be " Rattled by the glimmer man " in the sense of being alarmed by their anticipated arrival.
Notwithstanding that the phenomenon of the glimmer man was transitory, perhaps much improved with the telling, and had in any event disappeared prior to the middle of the 20th century, it appears to have left an impact on the psyche of the Irish and not just those who lived through the Emergency period.
The glimmer man is frequently referred to ( as referenced here ) in formal histories, blogs and websites newspaper and magazine articles, as well as oral histories and memoirs even if only in passing.
Despite Judd's growing into a harsh man, reviewer Hary Sheehan noted, he preserves a glimmer of empathy.
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Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.
You'll also find regret over the loss of a comrade to darkness, and the faintest glimmer of hope that he can be saved.
Of this same fire, he wrote also: Hotarabu mo amaseba iya haya kore wa haya If you leave so much / As a firefly's glimmer, -/ Good Lord!
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Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.
England's lead was just 124 but there remained some glimmer of hope.
Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.
While the ' 80s saw neo-prog keeping a glimmer alive in the U. K. and U. S., symphonic prog was reaching other countries around the world.
Jack Cole ( Steven Seagal ) was once a government intelligence operative known as " The Glimmer Man ," because he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died.
That they had been leading lights in the New York area was true, but the glimmer for both could not really hold.
The textual basis was so important that he urged that errors be corrected with reference to Hebrew texts, an early glimmer of techniques of textual criticism, though Nicholas recognized the authoritative value of the Church's Tradition:
Tim Farriss felt " Mark was the first producer that was able to capture some glimmer of what the band felt it was like live.
Edmund Gosse, in his introduction to Rowlands's complete works, edited ( 1872 – 80 ) for the Hunterian Club in Glasgow by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, sums him up as a kind of small non-political Daniel Defoe, a pamphleteer in verse whose talents were never put into exercise except when their possessor was pressed for means, and a poet of considerable talent without one spark or glimmer of genius.
The first glimmer was the title, which was announced by the Locus magazine as The Castle of the Otter.
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Tierwater and Andrea, who again call themselves husband and wife now, have a glimmer of hope that life will soon be like life 30 years before, as the novel ends on an optimistic note.
Another glimmer of hope is Andrei ( Pavel Ponomaryov ), who becomes her boyfriend and offers her a job in Sweden.
:"... came to feel she had a special calling ... to bring a glimmer of truth, however forlorn, into a debate characterized by confusion, denial, smugness, and suicidal self-indulgence ... ' No sexual history ' is how the jaded describe a chaste woman of 23 who, as Miss Bergalis explained to disbelieving interviewers, ' wanted to wait for marriage.
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These poems were " Lesbos ", " Femmes damnés ( À la pâle clarté )" ( or " Women Doomed ( In the pale glimmer ...)"), " Le Léthé " ( or " Lethe "), " À celle qui est trop gaie " ( or " To Her Who Is Too Gay "), " Les Bijoux " ( or " The Jewels "), and " Les " Métamorphoses du Vampire " ( or " The Vampire's Metamorphoses ").
Brunelleschi had proposed the vault to glimmer with resplendent gold, but his death in 1446 put an end to this project, and the walls of the dome were whitewashed.
Road signs were taken down, street lights and house windows were blacked out at night, cars travelled with deflector shields over the headlamps reducing them to a dim glimmer.
The next day they were taken to a military gun carriage escorted by the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment at Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. 1 The remains of former President rested temporarily in the vault of the fallen in the Revolution of the Park until 16 May were transferred to a single monument in the cemetery in a place built of gray and beige marble, where there is a cross on top and a bright stained glass by entering a glimmer.
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There is a glimmer of hope for reconciliation at the end, when Sam addresses Hally by his nickname again and asks to start over the next day, hearkening back to the simple days of the kite.
All having moved on into popular lives and having barely a glimmer of the memories of that summer, they are all traumatized by the memories on Mike's phone call.
One glimmer of hope is her friend Volodya ( Artyom Bogucharsky ), abused and rejected by his alcoholic father, with whom she forms a tender protective relationship.
Orlando Cepeda gave Braves fans a glimmer of hope by hitting a two-run home run off Gary Gentry in the fifth to put the Braves back on top, 4 – 3.
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That glimmer of hope is dashed when an improvised gas grenade they plan to use on their enemy totally fails on testing, thereby erasing their one possible advantage.
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The term derived from the copy of advertisements published in the media and on posters which enjoined the population not to waste gas ... not even a glimmer.
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Its first glimmer occurred some two years previously, in August 1944, over lunch between Hitchcock and Selznick's story editor, Margaret McDonell.
She sees a glimmer of opportunity at Mao's low point-2 years after the launch of the Great Leap Forward which proved so disastrous.
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Many of the Romans saw the beginning of Otto the 2nd ’ s reign as a glimmer of hope that it might be possible for them to recover their ancient rights and even free themselves from foreign rule.
The March 5th trade deadline offered another glimmer of hope when the team acquired hold-out goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin from Phoenix for 3 players and a draft pick.
My Chemical Romance's song " Vampire Money " taken from their album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys released on 22 November 2010 features the lyric ' glimmer like Bolan in the morning sun ', referencing Marc Bolan.
An own goal from Jorge Andrade gave the Netherlands a glimmer of hope.
Instead of retreating, Washington, in what Edward G. Lengel calls " an early glimmer of the courage and resolve that would rally the Continentals from many a tight spot later on ", devised a plan to entrap the British light troops.
Hunt began her recording career as a teenager with several singles released from 1962: she had her first glimmer of success in 1970 when " You & I " a duet with Charlie Hodges reached # 45 on the R & B chart in Billboard and in 1972 Hunt's remake of " Baby I Need Your Loving " reached # 47 R & B.
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Some of her worshippers claim that her divine glimmer gave life to the natural world, and some contend that she is the creator and source of all mortal races.
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The wan light spread over the ground and the valley revealed in the first glimmer the contours of trees and fences and palely shadowed gullies.
But on the day of the game, he offered a glimmer of hope to Ramsey when he said he felt better and asked for a fitness test.
While Camus acknowledges that Kafka's work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he maintains that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope.
The success of UFC 40 provided a glimmer of hope for the UFC and kept alive the hope that mixed martial arts could become big.
Partridge eventually sees the glimmer of a light, and they make their way to an isolated house.
He held one glimmer of hope, however.
A glimmer of joy flitted across his face.
Upon this realization Rand comes to terms with himself, and finally laughs, dispersing the unnatural clouds that have been in the sky throughout the book, shining a tiny glimmer of hope on his fate at Tarmon Gai ' don.
A dull glimmer.
Likewise, " gl -" words for shiny things: glisten, gleam, glint, glare, glam, glimmer, glaze, glass, glitz, gloss, glory, glow, and glitter.
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