Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning his gaze to the towering mountain and the gentle fields that allow a skier of 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...
...leveling their gaze at material gain, the founders of Jamestown made themselves the truer precursors of modern American ideals. Thanksgiving, though reduced to an occasion for a square meal, still immortalizes the deeds of the Pilgrim Fathers. Surely the Pecuniary Fathers of Jamestown deserve to be enshrined in the nation's folklore with their own holiday...
...misses the master hand, combing through the yards of incident and anecdote to separate the significant from the pointless; it is not a book that is terribly useful now. And Sidey's last chapter is far below the level of the earlier ones; the book closes: "He used to gaze beyond the waves from his boat and would stare from a plane window towards infinity. Now he is there...
Gyges owed his accession to a strange whim of his predecessor, Kind Kandaules, who forced Gyges to gaze secretly at the queen in the in the nude. The queen noticed Gyges, however, and told him he must either kill her husband and become king, or himself be killed. He killed the busband and became king...
...small wonder then that after being in Mississippi for a week, everyone develops a certain set of reactions to color. A pair of freedom workers walks down a street at night in Holly Springs to buy a late supper. A car edges slowly along the curb, and both workers gaze intently trying to see the passengers in the light of the streetlamp. One finally speaks, "'s okay, they're the right color." And as the car of Negroes passes, the two white freedom workers relax...