Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thorn Patch Uprooted. Democratic Whip Mansfield had gradually focused his gaze on the best issue the Democrats had: the debatable constitutionality of the word "authorized" in the first half of the resolution. Eisenhower and Dulles insisted that the word was needed to show the world that Congress stands firmly behind the President. But thoughtful Senators on both sides of the aisle began to wonder whether adoption of "authorized" might throw doubt upon the President's implied power as Commander in Chief to use armed forces to safeguard the nation's security. This doubt, the reasoning ran, might deter...
...wild, high borderland of northern India the great hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called "gaze hounds" because they spotted their prey by sight, not scent. British officers back from Asian duty told tales of untrained Afghan hounds serving as sentries at frontier forts...
Resolutely, Britain's Harold Macmillan began to turn his countrymen's gaze away from the last humiliating weeks. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister last week, Macmillan passed rapidly over the Suez war ("I believe history will justify what we did"), and briskly informed those who saw the imminent end of the American alliance: "We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites...
...these motivations play a part in making Harvard a prime target of juvenile attacks. Harvard has undeniably become associated in local minds with the rich and the "haves," and is regarded as fair game for any pilfering the locals may have in mind. Covetous eyes, unaccustomed to any luxury, gaze longingly at the University's obvious material wealth. Sometimes a theft results. Other times a youth merely crosses two wires of an open car in fender alley, starts it up, and just sits there pretending he is driving...
...Upward gaze and happy...