Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin man may soon get a new lease on life from the Public Health School. Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition, yesterday announced a way to make skinny people fat, but it's not quite perfected yet. In fact, right now it just works on rats...
...Stare hopes to inject fat into a man's body by means of a hypodermic needle. But first, to prevent fatal blood clots, his experimenters break it into small particles in a souped-up dairy homogenizer...
...chain-talker, and the only thing that stops her momentarily is the need for oxygen; she gasps, and the unpunctuated torrent of words gushes on until she must breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...
...huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces-or why, or how, or when. Scholars have ransacked Easter Island, photographed its relics, cross-questioned its modern natives (there are less than 500)-aii to no avail. It has never seemed possible that the people of a small, barren island 1,100 miles from the nearest inhabited land (Pitcairn Island) should have carved several hundred weighty stone ornaments and lugged them up & over the rim of a volcano. Because of these...
Then Ben-Gurion dropped his matter-of-fact manner. The labor politician was replaced by the prophet. A dreamer's stare veiled his blue eyes. The room was small but his voice throbbed loudly, as if speaking to multitudes against the winds on Mount Carmel...