Word: stare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nutritionists are as concerned with the source of nutrients," says Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition and head of the study group, "as with the amounts consumed." Of the 2900-calories daily intake of students in the Graduate School of the Business Administration, 15 per cent came from protein, 41 per cent from fat, and 45 per cent from carbohydrate...
...Minuteman waits in its silo, its guidance system will stare fixedly at the North Star, its silent gyroscope will spin ceaselessly. Cranked into its memory drums will be the data to guide the missile to any one of several targets. The guidance system itself cannot be jammed by electronics once it is set in motion...
...Christmas Market.'' a bright-painted hodgepodge of game booths, carrousels, sausage counters and Ferris wheels. The displays are trimmed with Tannenbaum branches and Christmas decorations, but the people remain grim and unconvivial. At the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden, knots of East Berliners gather to stare wistfully westward through the columns of the Brandenburg Gate. Murmured a bespectacled worker: "The Americans should have torn down the Wall. Now it is too late...
...running fight along the canals of Ba Xuyen province, army patrols killed six Viet Cong guerrillas, and in similar incidents, South Vietnamese often gathered to stare curiously at the dead guerrillas. In the coastal jungles of Phu Yen province, the Viet Cong ambushed and wiped out 40 civil guards. A rickety train chugging up from Saigon to Nhatrang was derailed; in the confusion seven government soldiers vanished, either captured by the Viet Cong or deserting to them. Day after day, the war-formless, ferocious, without front lines-grew in intensity...
...self-portraits do not look like each other because they are only facets of himself (he has nicknames for them). But they all have the same brooding eyes. A Lasansky scene can be feverish with clashing lines and spinning faces, or one lonely figure may look up to stare starkly into space. Either way, there is always an air of mourning. The world that Lasansky pictures is really two: the one that is perpetually dying and the other that must watch and grieve...