Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spit-and-polish image of a career military officer: stocky and silver-haired, he stands straight as a bayonet and has a level gaze. But when former Marine Lieut. Colonel William Corson talks about the injustices done to veterans of the Viet Nam War, there is anger in his voice. Says Corson: "They deserved a hell of a lot more than we gave them. What did we do to facilitate the re-entry of these guys who sacrificed so much? The answer is, damn little...
Meanwhile, on another front entirely, national leaders have sprung up who seem incapable of second thoughts. Rather than divert their gaze from the silent toy within their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world...
Sitting at his too high desk, Koch can gaze straight across at La Guardia in a portrait, who stares straight back with all the severity due a competitor...
...Soviet bloc. No outsize portraits of Marx and Lenin. No reviewing stand for party bigwigs. No interminable speeches. Marching in a procession of 100,000 workers down Warsaw's Krolewska Street last week, under a sea of red flags, was a group of men who used to gaze down on such manifestations from an elevated platform: the entire eleven-member Polish Politburo, hatless in spite of the light drizzle, occasionally smiling at the gaggle of photographers around them. Said one startled Polish journalist: "This is the greatest sign of renewal they could have given...
...first public appearance with Charles, when she wore a strapless gown, caused the kind of minor sensation that seemed to belong to a more innocent age. In those first early days, as she was preparing for the wedding and preparing to be Charles' consort away from the gaze of press and public, she had already become an instant part of popular mythology, an indelible woman of the new decade, as we will see in Dressed to Thrill, Chapter 3 of Monarchy in Love...