Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more splendid than anyone had expected: she wore an eye-catching raspberry red dress, a silver fox cape, diamond and ruby earrings and high-heeled black pumps. As she stepped down to give President Truman a vigorous handshake, she had a warm and winning smile, a direct gaze and a jolly air that was immediately disarming...
...fact, she is one of those rare humans (like her husband and her uncle, Theodore Roosevelt) who have a talent for public life, for living naturally and even comfortably in the public gaze, like a goldfish in its bowl, and for instinctively evading female critics, enraged politicos and other predators with little more than a lazy movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable...
Alfred Lawson fixed the committee with a steady gaze and nimbly dodged a barrage of questions from Michigan's Senator Blair Moody. How much had the machines been sold for? "I don't know. I never go in for figures at all." Had Lawson made any profit on the deal? "Profit? Why no. What profit could I get out of it?" What courses were taught at the school? "Well, they teach Lawsonomy." And that deals with mechanics? "[It teaches] the knowledge of life and everything pertaining thereto, and that takes in mechanics." Finally Lawson got exasperated...
...center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing some of them, in wild retreat, to leap over the precipice. Most guided tours also stop...
...After Materialism, What?" Cobina called on her courage-"always," she admits, "immense"-and went back to work, first as the proprietor of a supper club that failed, later as a nightclub singer at $500 a week. When daughter Cobina was 16, mother stood her in the public gaze, named her "Jr.," tacked "Sr." to her own name and retired to the wings. She coached the young beauty into a quick, bright career as the Glamour Girl of 1939, but all ended in confusion when Cobina Jr. threw up her Hollywood contracts and married wealthy young Palmer Beaudette...