Word: gaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season they had flocked to France almost 3,000,000 strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours that offered "Paris by night" (2,500 francs with champagne included) did a rushing business...
Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...
...might be appropriate to mention here a few of Yale's recent times and distances that the Crimson can only gape at. In the Heps, Fuchs put the shot 55 feet, 3/4 inches, Wade ran the mile in 4:18.7, Appel pole vaulted 13 feet, 5 inches, and the mile relay team finished...
...came here. It could be better. Instead of Six Pine Trees there is only one decent pine tree. I can't find a Thoughtful Spot. People gape at me and say, "There yoy are." They are vulgar. Warn them to stand back...
...keeper nodded. Photographer Darby finally wrapped two lengths of Henry's chain around his neck and escaped, somewhat shaken. By & large, our correspondents had a quieter time of it. Some went alone to browse and gape; others took the opportunity to give their youngsters an outing. One, who spent a lively afternoon keeping his young son out of crocodile pits and away from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell...