Word: stare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that she had been treated heartlessly, hide flickering lust with censoriousness when the prosecution relentlessly details her love affairs. Hopelessly, she lashes at the judges: they are old men in silly robes, they cannot understand, they are dead. That night she commits suicide, and the next morning the judges stare at one another in a final communion of opacity...
...pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared. "Never heard of it," he said finally. "Never heard...
...Orient," is now grubby and cheerless, and the once glittering Street of Silk is deserted soon after sundown, reported TIME Correspondent James Wilde, one of the few Westerners to visit Hanoi in its six years of Red rule. Crowds flock to the "people's stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style in shapeless jackets instead of the traditional silk...
...Stare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation Chairman James...
...climbers were still a long way from their goal. The next night, with temperatures down to 12° below zero, Hiebeler dozed with his feet dangling in space. As daylight came, skiers gathered far down below to stare through telescopes at the four specks crawling upwards on der Eiger. With surprising ease, the four surmounted "the spider," a notorious, four-pronged glacier that caused the death of Italy's Stefano Longhi...