Word: stares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th Century) loves his machine. When the day's work was done, Giuseppe would drive his steam roller around to his shack, and putter about, oiling and cleaning it. Sometimes at work Giuseppe would set the huge machine rolling and get down in the road to stare at it as it marched on alone, slowly and steadily crushing the gravel beneath its bland power...
...picked up a lump of clay and "knew right off" he wanted to be a sculptor."But when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back, I was the Invisible...
...church which had then accidentally burned down before anyone could unlock the doors. So one day in 1865, when Kereopa happened on the Rev. Carl Volkner in a lonely spot, he killed him, taking care to eat the dead man's eyes so the ghost would not stare at him. The New Zealand Government promptly offered a ?1,000 reward for the murderer, and several years later another Maori chief named Wari Te Whiu turned Kereopa...
Manhattanites paused to stare at a familiar free show: ladies in low necks and long skirts, and men in top hats and white ties, all piling out of limousines and taxicabs at the musty, brownstone Metropolitan Opera House. It was opening night...
...about a month, the disc will go by truck to Mt. Palomar, 130 miles away. There the glass will be covered with a thin film of shiny aluminum and set in the telescope. Some night in the spring or summer of 1948 it will stare up at the sky as man's farthest-seeing...