Word: behold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Councillor received a phone call about the problem from a constituent last Saturday. "So I went down to Sixth Street and--lo and behold--there was a truck there, with two men in it. I asked them what they were doing. They didn't have the answers, but they kept taking the bricks," he said...
...Riots, wars, inflation, campus radicals-the average American voter clutches his checkbook and longs for the quiet, ho-hum days of pre-Viet Nam. And lo and behold! Who should appear but handy, wholesome, ho-hum Hubert...
PAINTING Triump of the Clumsiest In the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the canvas with such vehemence that on one occasion he dis located his thumb. A model who posed for him never forgot the experience...
...young, they move well, they perform with confidence and spirit. A few of them, Lisa Nelson and Whittaker Sheppard in particular, give off sparks of a very personalized energy. A few of them, especially wide-eyed Wendy Perron, possess radiant good looks that are nothing if not pleasant to behold. A few of them, like Martha Armstrong, are very funny. Attributes like these can make even a spoiled Loeb audience forget they're faced with a proscenium stage bare of sets, made ugly by a dirty canvas floor cloth and backed by shabby backdrops of black or white...
...campaign should be a spectacle to behold. If there is one thing that Lyndon Johnson enjoys as much as being President, it is running for President. On the stump, he enjoys a signal advantage his unparalleled record of domestic legislation...