Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, officials said the toll would certainly surpass 5,000 and could even reach 30,000. "There are bodies in the sea, under mud, everywhere," said President Hugo Chavez, as corpses filled the tarmac at nearby Simon Bolivar Airport. "It's horrible." How horrible was evident in the spectral gaze of Alegra Rangel, who had seen her four small children buried alive, inside the family's car, by a roaring mud slide. "I got out for a moment to see what the noise was," she said, still in shock, "and when I looked back they were gone...
...gaze up at the screen for a moment, contemplating this phenomenon. A baseball fan holds up a sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...teenage girls walk around the far side of the store, trying to avoid her on their way to the dressing room, Schor's gaze pans and fixates on something in the distance. "Oh, this is very clever of them...
When a woman asked Bradley what he would do to improve education for children with "special needs," he fixed her in his gaze and rattled off a string of policy positions on the subject...
...company that is working on a laser that uses radar initially developed for the Star Wars, or Strategic Defense Initiative, to track the eye during the operation. Currently doctors keep the eye steady by asking you to stare at a blinking red dot. If you suddenly shift your gaze, your surgeon can turn the laser off very quickly, but the doctor can't compensate for the small, involuntary eye movements we make all the time. These saccadic motions aren't usually a problem, but they may explain some of the variability in results of the surgery...