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Word: stared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flyers (who had stayed in Arabia to train the native crew) goggled as brawny slaves lugged the ladies' luggage aboard. But when worldly Prince Feisal, performing a filial chore, shepherded the passengers into the cabin, the crewmen looked the other way. They had been carefully briefed: to stare at the veiled and giggling travelers was to invite death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Ladies First | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Always a Woman | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...closed the introductory remarks he half turned and faced the Japs with a piercing stare and said: 'I announce it my firm purpose ... to insure that the terms of surrender are fully, promptly and faithfully complied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ... Peace Be Now Restored | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

With our last report marked finis, finals about to stare sun down, and plane reservations being cancelled, the homecomings of many Chase stalwarts take on a more realistic air. It won't be long now until we are saying goodbye to J. A. Hancock, Luther L. Green, and the rest of the boys

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/29/1945 | See Source »

Last week they drove into Concord, N.H., registered at a hotel, and sallied forth to case the town. Giles dropped into a local movie to stare critically at a film entitled The Suspect. Cook wandered out to a tailor shop. But police and FBI men spotted their stolen automobile parked at the curb. They stopped Cook with leveled Tommy guns, relieved him of a bag containing a wad of stolen currency and four stolen pistols. He was apparently too annoyed to say a word. But Giles seemed well rehearsed. When two policemen cornered him in the movie, he grated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Oops--the Bulls | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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