Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...
...Bombay Royal Yacht Club, where no Indian could tread even as a member's guest, was about to close; the Government had refused to renew its lease. No more would the pink pukka sahibs and their leathery memsahibs stare glassily over the glassy bay. Gone from most of the smart hotels were the signs "Europeans only." In cool Simla, Indians now jostled along the Mall where 20 years ago no person in Indian dress would have been allowed...
...Queen's Approval. Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
...whose sensitivities make him avoid the older wafting out of the Bick has to take the Eastern Passage, and that must mean the Widener Gate. Nowadays the Gate is a fearsome place. It is flanked by two constables, who stare suspiciously at the entering man and his books, and coldly finger their revolvers. And on the right the inviting gate remans barred...
...such it is as peculiarly American as Mormonism itself; to most U.S. citizens Salt Lake City is a "tourist attraction." When Mormons observe their Utah Centennial next week with parades, dances, music, speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations of Mormon diligence and industry...