Word: stared
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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...
...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...
...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...
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
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...