Word: gawking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blonde titters and edges forward indulgently. She is here to gawk at a historical figure, and hardly expects to be entertained. Despite her flower-print and beads, it is not difficult to imagine her someday attending concerts for her own self-improvement...
...look at the ruins of Nasser's tank corps, set down at Elath for lunch, then circle back via the Dead Sea and an aerial view of reunited Jerusalem. By the tens of thousands, blue-capped tourists in buses and cars race down the Mediterranean highway to gawk in Gaza and bargain-hunt for pottery, lamps and wicker goods in the bazaars. At first, miniskirted young Israeli sabras so excited Arab men, accustomed to women more thoroughly clothed, that an uncontrollable rash of pinching broke out. Now miniskirts are banned in Gaza...
Despite the Senate's casual acceptance of his presence, Brooke has already become a Capitol Hill tourist attraction. Gallery-sitters crane their necks, gawk and buzz excitedly whenever he comes into view. In airport terminals and Capitol corridors, strangers grab his hand and wish him well. Letters come into Brooke's office at the rate of 350 a day. He has received nearly 1,400 speaking invitations in the past couple of months, has rejected all of them until last week's engagement...
...wholly shocked. All of which earned Mrs. Pendergrass a $50 fine and a suspended sentence of 20 days in jail. Equally shocked, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously voided her conviction. Not only did the puritanical preacher ignore a "no trespassing" sign, bristled the court, but he also stayed to gawk for 45 minutes despite his self-proclaimed "purity of mind." Worse, said the court, indecent exposure is a Mississippi crime only when committed on public property, not on private premises...
...reputation was redeemed by one of the world's great artists. In 1859, when France's Blondin started strolling the 1,300 ft. from the U.S. to the Canadian side of the gorge on a 2-in.-thick tightrope, rubbernecks flocked across the continent to gawk. For two summers, while spectators placed bets on his fate (and sometimes cut his supporting cables to improve the odds), the dapper Frenchman sashayed back and forth on his rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even...