Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grazed Lip. Typically, the Shah glanced warily from side to side, and it was well that he did. His gaze met that of a young conscript named Reza Bakhshabadi, who held his submachine gun at a level lower than usual. The Shah, trained in arms, was well aware of the technique of firing an automatic weapon: start shooting low and then raise your aim-if you take dead aim the kick of recoil makes shots go too high for accuracy...
...pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble of mankind...
...minutes before curtain time, he enters the wings and begins exercising again. Then, as the curtain ascends, his forehead glistening with sweat, his chest heaving, he steps out into a halo of white light. Turning slowly, deliberately, he fixes his enigmatic gaze on the audience for one hypnotic moment, then begins to dance. And, like the sound of the sea, there comes the great rushing gasp of an audience enchanted...
...will answer all questions, all questions," Mr. Kushi replied. He paused to gaze at a young student. "Ah, you're changing. You're growing beautiful, beautiful...
Turning his gaze to the towering mountain and the gentle fields that allow a skier to finish the day by skiing right to the back door of the lodge, he concluded, "I've got a lot of hopes for this idea, but it's impossible to say just how big it's going to be. But at least I'll never have to look back and wonder what would have happened because I didn't take the chance while it was there...