Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...someone knocks at your door within the next week and tells you he is taking a census of studio couches, don't give him the cold stare or the unfriendly door-slam. He's not working his way through college; he's helping out the Emergency Defense Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, which hopes to provide overnight accomodations for draftees on weekend leave...
General McNair's reference to the rout of Italian troops by Russian airmen in Spain was pointed: In the first Battle of Louisiana, soldiers on the ground had been noticeably more inclined to stop and stare at attacking aircraft than to scatter and try to shoot them down...
...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
Robert Maynard Hutchins (at University of Chicago): "When we talk about freedom, we usually mean freedom from something. . . . Freedom of the press is freedom from censorship. ... A free world is simply a world free from Hitler. But freedom must be something more than a vacant stare. . . . When we get political freedom, the important question remains: What shall we do with...
...green and rich, to the gleaming white mansion. The cop on the corner groaned at the task of protecting "them sorry sons a'bitches." (They needed protection. Recently a Marine jumped on a picket and beat him up with his belt.) A carload of Indiana tourists stopped to stare. The cop made them move on. Said he bitterly: "That there fellow had his kids with him. This is probably their first -and last-trip to Washington. They want a good look at the White House...