Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carbohydrates, became increasingly lethargic, and would burst into tears for no apparent reason. By November, when daylight lasted only seven hours, Krabacher had gained 20 lbs. "There were some days," she recalls, "when all I could do was get out of bed and get on the couch and stare until the sun came up." Miserable and panicked, Krabacher fled to her former home in Southern California. Her symptoms soon disappeared...
...LONELY day more than a century from now, some poor historian bemoaning his poor luck in a dusty library will come across the December 11, 1987 issue of New York Times and strike gold. He'll open the paper to the op-ed page and simply stare at what he sees. Although the Times didn't go pornographic on that Friday, in running Conservative Caucus chairman Howard Phillip's piece called "The Treaty: Another Sellout," it presented the hard right without any of its clothing...
...does a candidate deal with erring subordinates? He may resort to temper tantrums or just an icy stare, but unless a would-be President is willing to assert discipline, he risks being governed by a staff that provides only grief for the chief...
Almost an entire nation become paralyzed with curiosity and concern. Crowds gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going...
...they say harassment is common. "They stare. They threaten. They comment," Franklin says...