Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice of New York Timesman George Axelsson, passed by the German censors: "A well-mannered non-Jewish German does not stare at any one wearing the Star of David, but looks the other way. The Army, as a general rule, is not nearly so anti-Semitic as the Nazi party. ... In public places or in contacts as a fellow-worker in factories the German working man seems to treat the Jew as an equal...
General Maximiliano Martinez, the President of El Salvador, turned out to be a theosophist. "He likes to put bottles of colored water out in the sun; once the sun's rays penetrate them, he thinks the water has therapeutic use. . . ." He has also trained himself to stare at the sun without blinking, claims it cures shortsightedness...
...complicated for one man to keep his hand on everything in a studio. Stahr "had flown up very high to see, on strong wings, when he was young. And while he was up there he had looked on all the kingdoms, with the kind of eyes that can stare straight into the sun." He had chosen a kingdom in the west where he saw a "new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows." There he had everything except leisure and someone he could love...
...back, Mike, ain't he." (I figured him for the New York, Times). Then from all around would come an answering chorus of affirmative grunts, and the baldish gent on my left would grab in front of me for the binoculars of the man on the right and stare down at the field for a long minute and then add his own assent with a tardy lackadaisical "Yeah...
...Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare." "So," says Author Koeves, "Narcissus might have looked into the clear surface of a limpid stream...