Word: rubbernecked
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...others, the filming was more than just a chance to stop and rubberneck...
...never did. Settling down to husband his fortune, he raised chickens, sat in his front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...
...invitations to appear as a speaker. Last week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned out to rubberneck as Bobby and a phalanx of Kennedy kin, including Massachusetts' Senator Teddy, showed up to dedicate the $24 million John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building...
...NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive, her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just-but just-worth the rubberneck fare...
...NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive-or at least breathe a little-her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just, but just, worth the rubberneck fare...