Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American bombings forced keepers at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to kill their dangerous charges. Since then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...
...chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they can marry. For these people, social life is simple. On Sunday, they walk out to the University City's crusted, sandy slopes, where they lie in the sun and talk and stare at the still unfilled trenches of the Civil...
These silent little victims stare as if in mute reproach to our generation of "adults" whose puerile irresponsibility let this war come to pass. Weary, aged and disillusioned beyond their years, they plead the case for relief and rehabilitation far more eloquently than their elders who . . . have so grievously failed them...
...Mademoiselle?" asks the desk clerk, giving Vicky a fishy stare. "What has become of Monsieur Barton, your brother? But how should we know, Mademoiselle? Mademoiselle herself ought to recall that she arrived unescorted yesterday. Room 39? Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo. Mademoiselle looks faint, and perhaps is not well...
...Cold Stare. The remainder of the week, Congress spent on labor, taxes and economy. With a wary but determined air, the Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the House's tax-reduction bill. Almost immediately, members were faced with the cold stare of Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Secretary Snyder was in an "adamant" mood. He stiffly reasserted the Administration's stand against tax cuts, refused to let Republican committeemen persuade him that big cuts are needed now to bolster public purchasing power, and left the anxious committee to guess whether Harry Truman would veto the final version...