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When East and West were glowering in immobilized anger, Hammarskjold quietly slipped into Peking in 1955 and negotiated the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers.

From Time Magazine Archive

All these were glowering upon me with a very whirlwind of hate and vengeance, and I—whau!—I was as a man who had died ten deaths.

From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram

These valorous stiffs were glowering, really dangerous at last.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman

The two elderly men were glowering at her; Sam, white as his shirt and limp, was hanging his head.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham