Word: gawked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began last September, when J.P. and I decided to turn FM s first comp meeting into a self-gratifying gawk-fest. Charged with preparing a list of randomly selected first-years to invite to FM s annual Open House, we attacked our chore with gusto--trolling the student directory for hotties...
...Moines Country Club had never seen anything like it. For a week in July, more than 250,000 Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...
...sure was a three-day blow, replete with huffing and puffing and plenty of buffeting, lots of hot air and even some gloom and doom. There was nowhere to hide from its primal force; nothing to do but gawk, and murmur in hushed tones, and wait for it all to be over...
Reportedly, it was Kennedy Schlossberg who made sure that Friday's memorial service was small and private, at an upper Manhattan church that their mother attended, instead of in a large cathedral where the world could freely gawk. And one saw her fingerprints on the decision to cremate John and his two fellow passengers and spread their ashes to the waves in a U.S. Navy "commitment at sea." (As son of the captain of PT 109 ?- and the commander-in-chief ?- John was certainly entitled; the courtesy was extended to include his wife and her sister.) To the accompaniment...
...there, Jackie spoke to a big crowd of black folks over on Davis Avenue. I think he talked about segregation, but I didn't hear a word that came out of his mouth. Jackie Robinson was such a hero to me that I couldn't do anything but gawk...