Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes swooped and circled outside Southampton as the huge Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen...
...anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-so-many-things that his poisonous mouthings disgust and antagonize his audience. His philosophy has a strictly limited appeal. Although the Meeting House was not filled and there was room for any of his disciples who so desired to come in and gaze at his august presence, his audience included only about 35 people, mostly old ladies, who had come to listen rather than to jeer. Except for the demonstration against him, Smith's appearance would have attracted about as much attention as the weekly meeting of the Ladies Sewing Circle...
Both sides had planned carefully. Spanish Republicans had announced a "month of agitation" to attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...