Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooks House from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock and all civilian and V-12 students are invited. The usual non-alcoholic beverages will be served but far more important is the chance that here at last, after almost two weeks of utter stagnation, is your chance to gaze upon the flower of American womanhood and perhaps form the acquaintance of a life time...
Place of Spirits. This rain-goddess is a familiar figure in Rhodesia: a well-shaped, fearless Matabele woman of 55 with a jolly face, a searching gaze, a European taste in clothes, and (according to her people) a proved ability to make rain. A white prospector who believed the old legends of buried treasure persuaded her to lead him to the secret burial cave of Lobengula...
Prediction expiring, unfulfilled: Admiral William Halsey's, that 1943 would bring "complete, absolute defeat for the Axis." Said Admiral Halsey: "I refuse to gaze into the crystal ball any more. . . . Only God knows...
...bizarre biography of Negro Fire Chief George Bright, who retired to a p?/cch of greasewood, yuccas, sagebrush and cacti, where he built a short-lived Negro Utopia. In his concrete palace, the windows of each room had panes of a different color. Bright liked to gaze at his wife through the "sensual tropical green...
...President, thus architecting a room in history for each of the past Presidents, is designing his own place beside his 31 predecessors. As future visitors to that Presidential museum gaze at the mementos of Franklin Roosevelt, they will be well aware that he was an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary consciousness of history and of his part in it. But those future visitors may be able to answer with more assurance than the citizens of 1943 the question: How well and truly did President Roosevelt and the American people carry on the great heritage of the Republic...