Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the bland, long-lashed stare of roly-poly Defendant Louis Compagna, wily Willie Bioff testified: "Compagna came to see me and said he heard what I said about resigning. 'Anybody resigns from us resigns feet first, understand?' he tells me. So I didn't resign...
...zone and heavily mined against invasion, the Germans ordered curfew after 10. Organized workers struck, shopkeepers followed their lead, the banks closed and the baking ovens were allowed to cool. Allied flags appeared, waved, vanished and appeared again farther down the street. The Danes kept impassive faces, continued to stare through approaching Germans. After three days the baffled Kommandantur withdrew the curfew...
...Miserables. At first the peasants would stare at a prisoner and say: "Look at the Jew." But one day Hélion jokingly rolled a lump of coal toward a little girl. She ran off with it. Next day her father, one eye on the guards, gratefully slipped Hélion a meat sandwich. From then on the peasants realized "that we stood together on the same side of the castle: the slave quarters...
...their endless battles with the Kommandoführer and his guards required patience and trickery. When packages arrived for the prisoners from home or from the Red Cross, the guards would stare avidly at bars of chocolate, coffee, wool socks. In return for small favors, prisoners would reward the guards, later demand greater favors under threat of reporting the guard for eating a prisoner's food. To Hélion. who worked as an interpreter in the Kommandoführer's office, there came a daily cup of steaming American coffee. (The coffee, sent to Hélion...
Congress suddenly turned a hard, dollar-conscious stare on the U.S. Army & Navy. Total U.S. war bill since July 1940: $331 billion (roughly $10,000 per U.S. family...