Word: gawking
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...days after his narrow escape from death, Charles de Gaulle went to Mass near his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Then, on his way back to Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
Rubbering up Broadway last week, wondering out-of-towners stopped to gawk at the window of an auto showroom-at the window itself, not at the glittering barges behind it. The glass flexed in and out, visibly and violently, like the stomach of a sales manager who has just hit a triple in a company Softball game. The explanation of this marvel lay in a large, gilt-plastered room one flight up: Manhattan's Palladium Ballroom. There, nearly 1,000 tunestruck New Yorkers-Cubans and Puerto Ricans, non-Latin secretaries and button-downs-were writhing from side to side...
...lean and tough as a bottomland sapling, and he still has a young man's grace when he swings a long leg over the saddle and rides out to the field trials to match his bird dogs against the best in the nation. Rival trainers unabashedly gawk when Morton and his pointers begin to hunt for quail in the South's winter-barren cornfields and amid the tufts of sedge and lespedeza. "Clyde Morton," says one owner, "is to dog trials what Babe Ruth was to baseball...
...good deal has been made of the fact that Shelagh Delaney was only nineteen when she wrote A Taste of Honey; but this play is so fundamentally the expression of a young person that the departing audience does not gawk, "Gosh, and she's only nineteen," but soberly acknowledges her age for the challenge that it is. For Miss Delaney is indicting the older generation for having presented her (and us) with such a twisted world...
...with Formosa's Yang Chuan-kwang, and Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov. Foreigners flocked to watch the workouts of another U.S. superstar: Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, 19, holder of the world record at 7 ft. 3¾ in. When some Russians showed up to gawk, Thomas coolly put the bar at 7 ft. and sailed over with disdainful ease. Gasped the Russians: "Zamechatelno [wonderful...