Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lafayette lay on her side like a dead whale, belly exposed, in the dirty ice mush of her slip in the Hudson River. Snow fell gently on the mammoth, fire-scarred hulk. Thousands of New Yorkers trooped to the waterfront to stare at her. She was a heartbreaking sight...
Back in Chicago next day, Boss Kelly let one reporter in his office. Said he: "I was in Washington on Government business. . . . There was nothing political about my trip." Had he talked to President Roosevelt again about the Senate? Answered Ed Kelly, with an icy stare: "I didn't say I saw the President...
...which summed up all Norway : Sverre Riisnaes, Vidkun Quisling's Minister of Justice, who is known to Free Norwegians as "Quisling's Donald Duck," informed an un-Nazified Oslo attorney that his license to practice law had been "revoked for life." The answer was a fish-eyed stare, the bland query: "Whose life...
Holy Fire of Küstrin. Fedor von Bock looks like a man dying of some mysterious internal combustion. He is gaunt, and his eyes have the baleful stare of windows in a bombed-out house. He is a competent general-in Russia he has been Germany's best-and besides, he believes, with aggressive religiousness, in dying if necessary for the soil and honor of Prussia...
...ribbon with three gold stars modestly measured her sacrifice, and Vag's own eyes filled when she wiped away a tear with a black handkerchief. Each star represented a brother. He looked over his mother's head toward the platform, finally locating the defeated President. Vag followed the fixed stare of the man's eyes down to the end of the cane which rested beside him; and then, looking at the worried face, Vag tried to pierce into the throughts of this gallant leader of the war days. Peace promises had been flung back in the President's face...