Word: gazing
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...strong will and conviction that were key to opening doors for future generations of golfers, including me. Several months ago, I had the pleasure of being honored at the Hispanic Heroes Luncheon in West Palm Beach, Fla. Betty, a local resident, attended, and as I met her gaze in the audience, I was reminded that a true hero was sitting before...
...long run, Bush clearly believes, the gaze of history will settle a few hundred yards to the southeast of the Miracle on the Hudson, on the spot where jets hammered skyscrapers and there were no happy endings. Speaking for the last time from the President's mansion, Bush recalled that his first such speech was on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. An easy trick for his speechwriters would have been to toss in a few lines about the skill and courage of his countrymen on the plane in the river, but Bush decided not to go there...
...banter we glimpsed again the man who won millions of votes in Texas and tens of millions nationwide. As he set his gaze on life outside "the klieg lights," Bush launched his Administration into the past tense, where he and history can ponder what might have been different...
...each July by thousands of devotees. The festival is also the original source of the word “juggeraut.”Unfortunately my visit to Puri fell far wide of this celebration, and since the temple complex at Puri is closed to non-Hindus, I could only gaze within its walls from the roof of a local “private library.” And so I entered one of the more common and less insidious types of little scams to be pulled on tourists in India.For the privilege of ascending to the roof, the director expects...
...biggest juggernaut in children's-television history sprang forth from mundane origins. At a Manhattan dinner party in 1966, a Carnegie Foundation executive named Lloyd Morrissett mentioned that his young daughter was so enthralled by television that she would park herself in front of the family's set to gaze at early-morning test patterns. That story prompted a public-television producer named Joan Cooney to investigate how television could be used to package education as entertainment: "What if it went down more like ice cream than spinach?" The ensuing creation - in which kids learned everything from empathy to arithmetic...