Word: stared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With good reason, as it happens. No sooner has the land been transferred than Larry feels supplanted, staring out the window for hours when he isn't drinking his way through "car rides all over Creation." At first, Ginny and Rose normalize his behavior. "He has nothing else to do," says Ginny, while her brassier sister offers that "perfecting that death's-head stare of his is going to be his life's work from now on, so we better get used...
...claim residence in the land of "Baywatch" and buxom, blond lifeguards. Store owners and custom officials would take a glance at my Los Angeles address and become chummy and friendly, eager to chat. "Harvard," on the other hand, triggered no special response and "Boston" merely elicited a blank stare...
...busts of John Harvard and George Washington remain on their respective mantles, and the two continue to stare out at each other...
...keeps tempting us to stare at bug zappers and gelatin instead of watching whatever they're filling the airwaves with, we might take them up on the challenge. Or, more likely, pick up a good book...
...wealthier retirees and require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take on the senior lobby even at a moment of record approval ratings and with no need to ever face them again at the polls...