Word: gape
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...vast Executive Chamber, where clemency hearings and full-dress conferences are held and visitors come to gape, hang the portraits of many past Governors of New York. The gold frames cover the mahogany walls, deploy along the full-length glass windows and over the hammered brass fixtures of the great fireplace...
...said that? Wuddya mean, do we dance with one another? Don't be silly, fel'a, that's the part we've been saving for now. Most of you gang go out during your great big one hour off and slug at the golden beverage and just gape at the feminine gender as they sit in other booths and the like. Do you gape over here?--heck no! There are whole mess of swellegent gals to dance with over there. In fact--and form a single line for this one willya--the girls have been outnumbering the men. Are they...
...battle will prove how good are these 40,000, and only battle will give them the combat polish that marks the full-fledged fighting man. But T.I.S., vastly expanded, vastly speeded up, has worked its pupils into a soldier's mold with an efficiency that has made pedagogues gape. Yale's Dr. James G. Rogers calls it "magnificent." A Harvard Law School professor, after a lifetime studying teaching methods, was unable to suggest an improvement, said it was "perhaps the most important place in America." A graduate, who had degrees from Harvard and Oxford, said: "My education...
Back from his entertainment tour of the South Pacific military bases, gape-grinned Film Comedian Joe E. Brown had covered 32,000 miles, had seen more war front than most U.S. soldiers. He had ripped through comedy routines before 8 a.m. and hours after dark. One show he did in Papuan jungle grass up to his hips, six minutes' march from Jap positions; another went on in a driving downpour at Milne Bay, New Guinea...
...head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather of a U-boat's periscope...