Word: beheld
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Then we, As we beheld her striding there alone, Knew that there never was a world for her Except the one she sang, and, singing, made...
...resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent of medals and decorations across his formal dress, but his sloe-eyed wife stunned the onlookers. "It was a matter of groping frantically for adjectives superlative enough to describe her gown and her jewels-the most blindingly impressive ever beheld in Washington." reported Maxine Cheshire in the Washington Post...
...might have received his training in Byzantium. There was a robe that originally belonged to a Moorish king but was used by Thomas a Becket as a chasuble. Thus had the crosscurrents of civilization met to be harmonized in a single style, as if the artists involved had all beheld the same vision...
...Kennedy ordered them out for one of his frequent rounds of golf- (no pictures, please, ordered Kennedy's aides). With security agents lurking with gun and radio in the rough, the group pounded away, but flatly refused to disclose their scores. Word got around that when Mr. Sam beheld Johnson's first drive, he said hell, he could do as well as that...
...Times thought he might well be. "One atrocious but clever criminal called into question our judicial system and brought discredit to our laws," editorialized the Times. "Then ... he intimidated the Governor of California and drove the timorous U.S. State Department to declare him an international issue. And finally, he beheld the legislature in a session specially called to change the law so that he could be saved from execution . . . What will happen now? They would not change the law for Chessman, but it would be unwise to give odds that he won't beat it again...