Word: gape
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gape unbelieving at those two lines...
Across the street, at the corner of Cambridge and Quincy Streets, a small crowd gathered to gape at the ice palace that earlier that morning had been an Economics Department office building. Gutted by a blaze, the building was soused with water that quickly froze into fairyland formations. Icicles like blodthirsty pixies held the building in an iron grip...
...Israelis, the view from the Syrian heights is nothing short of a fifth dimension. Above Israel's northern Huleh Valley, kibbutzniks still shudder with relief and joy as they gape from Syrian bunkers at their pitifully exposed homes. This is how the Syrians saw it for 19 years as they casually lobbed shells onto valley settlements...
Last week the consumer nations' fears faded. The delegates of the producing countries listened, argued, split hairs, stood attentively at interminable cocktail parties and even squeezed in a side trip to gape at Victoria Falls and float down the Zambezi River looking for elephants. But the first-of-its-kind conference ended with only an innocuous agreement to coordinate research and information policies. For that, the four countries set up an Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, to be based in Paris. Its first move will be to open an information bureau. "Consumers must not worry," said mustachioed Chilean...
Manchester indulges himself in a welter of detail so massive, confusing, and personal that one is forced to gape instead of emphathize--or remember. The poignant moments--like John Kennedy Jr.'s salute to his dead father outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral--are preserved. Utterly absurd events are related as well, but Manchester won't allow them to stand for themselves. He adds his own brand of brutal interpretation. He spends, for example, eight pages relating the difficulty Kennedy's staff had when they attempted to leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington...