Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined after taking six curtain calls with the cast, Still said he planned to keep on trying to write grand opera. Said he: "You don't realize your mistakes until they stare you in the face. I discovered my weak points...
...over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...
...Vacant Stare. "The thing to avoid is silence," Cheke has found, and this goes especially for dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation . . . though at some stage of the meal you will find that both your neighbors are deep in conversation but not with you." All that John can do is "make the best of a bad job, be careful not to fall into a vacant stare and take the first opportunity of getting back into the talk." If the British custom of retiring after dinner is not observed...
Reynaud, whose English does not encompass the playing fields of Eton, gave the Briton a blank stare and rode...