Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kelly Lange and brunette Lorri Ross, to be traffic spotters. Outfitted in snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident. "Spaghetti bowl" means an intersection where cars habitually pile up. "Carpool kamikazes" refers to autos overloaded with commuters who are not watching where they're going...
...bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told him not to be afraid...
...helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
...nation's highest office; yet he always thought of the presidency as a "dread responsibility." He was a politician without a politician's ways; instead of grinning gamely when, during one of his campaigns, a little girl handed him a stuffed baby alligator, Stevenson could only gape and exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis...
...convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push the car out of a ditch with their captive at the wheel and gape helplessly as he drives off with all their weapons. The captive becomes the captor, but not for long...