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Word: stare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sends out too many unexpected signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig: The Vicar Takes Charge | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...dozen scenes in black American novels where a child is going along happily until someone (often a schoolteacher) points out the "difference" in his life, which is also the difference of his future. At that revelation the child flees in panic to a mirror in order to stare at himself, to see himself for the first time as the white world sees him, as something "other," a vision of the negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great Black and White Secret | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...Stare at a yellow pencil for 30 seconds, then look at a white background and a lavender pencil will appear. Lavender authorizes compassion. Lavender trusts that a dream will come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...base we saw batters stare daggers at a referee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homecoming: Letters: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...gone so many times over the season at just the wrong times. Who knows? Maybe they'll find inspiration in the neon lights of Broadway; maybe they'll come back ready to take on the world of hoop intercollegiate competition, just like little orphan Annie and her vacuous stare takes on the big, bad world: maybe they'll be swishing to the sounds of Broadway like the Harlem Globetrotters and their Sweet Georgia Brown...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Hoopsters Go to New York, Disappear | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

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