Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question: Science must continue to see, but it must turn its gaze inward...
...history, and by every outward standard, she would seem perfectly suited to the part. Born to wealth and high social position, she has beauty, a swift intelligence and rarefied cultural interests. As Jack Kennedy's wife, she has lived for years in the public's gaze and should be well accustomed to the limelight. But in fact she shrinks from it. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's struggle to maintain her own separate and private identity has been lifelong. It marked her girlhood. It has marked her marriage. It is the key to her past-and to her future...
Curtain Down. Ever since he told his people, in a New Year's speech 15 years ago, that he was not really "a living god," Hirohito has been playing constitutional monarch with mixed success. Once, common folk were forbidden to gaze directly at his face, and train conductors lowered the blinds if the Emperor's private coach was due to pass, lest some passenger catch an accidental glimpse of him. Now, wearing the embarrassed look of a man intruding, he visited every prefecture in the country, climbing down mine shafts, trudging through factories, talking to peasants in paddyfields...
...organization called the International Development Association (IDA) got under way last week and immediately ran into the familiar experience of seeing other nations avert their gaze when the plate was passed. Conceived as a soft-currency adjunct to the World Bank, in which underdeveloped nations may borrow dollars and other hard currencies but can repay in a variety of nonconvertible currencies such as rupees or drachmas, IDA originally was to start with $1 billion in capital. Though the U.S. dutifully subscribed its promised one-third-$320 million-in full, other nations fell short, and IDA last week began with...
...with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...