Word: stare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks on the barricade. They're looking at a radical leftist...
...Jackie Kennedy, for all her highly touted grace and sophistication, hadn't even the courtesy to return a greeting from Richard Nixon when both of them were mourners at Martin Luther King's funeral. It wasn't even at a political rally (even then an icy stare would be ill-mannered), but at a dignified church service that this show of ignorance occurred. What makes it doubly ironic is that it happened at the funeral of a man who would never have done this type of thing himself...
...Harry Belafonte, who had brought Mrs. King back from Memphis on his chartered plane, and sat in a front row, as did Black Comedian Dick Gregory. Before the service, Richard Nixon leaned over to whisper hello to Jacqueline Kennedy, black-draped in the pew ahead, and received an icy stare in return. Such soulful spirituals as My Heavenly Father, Watch Over Me and If I Can Help Somebody were rendered so poignantly by Contralto Mary Gurley and Mrs. Jimmie Thomas, a soprano, of the Ebenezer Church Choir that Singer Mahalia Jackson, the misty mistress of mourning, began to weep silently...
...Collingwood had no difficulties with the three bureaucrats assigned to escort him, but the North Vietnamese did hand-pick his cameraman, French Freelancer Roger Pic, who had done several sympathetic films. Collingwood also notes that "naturally, they took me to bomb sites" and trotted out survivors to stare...
...schmurz is an endlessly silent witness to the strange antics of the father, the mother, the daughter and the maid of this family: people who would seem to be normal in many ways, for they sit and stare part of the time at a huge television screen where a hilariously silly soap opera goes on and on, interrupted by equally hilarious and equally foolish commercials. But they move a lot, and for reasons not clear...