Word: gawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second biggest, and, with its Plaza shopping center, the most successful privately run residential development in the U.S. Sears figured the price was small enough for a chance to tap the area's purchasing power. Sears was right. Opening day, 100,000 potential customers came to gawk at the tile and ornamental grillwork. Many went inside and spent a total...
...York, far from the quarrel, talkative, companionable Niemeyer will not speak of politics. With Old Teacher Le Corbusier (also busy on U.N. planning), he prefers to gawk at Manhattan's cluttered masonry like any visiting fire man. The Niemeyer opinion of Rockefeller Center-"good"; of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s great 11,250-family Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town projects on the East River-"commercial, crowded, all brick and no glass...
...practice Torontonians did not seem to get the hang of it. They averaged, said bartenders, only two drinks apiece (the favorite: rye highballs; second choice: gin drinks), and some just paid a cover charge to gawk. Perhaps it was the prices, which to many a customer seemed to be over proof. Samples: anywhere from 45? to $1.60 for highballs (1¼ ounces of whiskey per drink), $1.10 for Planter's Punch, 60? for Martinis and Manhattans, 95? for Side Cars, $1.60 for the fancy Zombie (featuring six varieties...
...getting over its prejudice against women doctors? The medical-school welcome to women looked like a favorable sign: besides admitting more of them, medical schools no longer gawk or sniff at their girl students. But after medic school, the going is still tough...
...years visitors to Cuba's National Capitol have plodded across the vast "Hall of Lost Steps" to gawk at a giant diamond in the floor. Last week it was gone from its star-shaped setting. On the Day of St. Dismas, patron of good thieves, a thief crashed the glass covering, chiseled out the 23 -carat shiner. * Alongside he jotted cabalistically: 2:45-3:10, then ap parently left by the Capitolio's front door...