Word: stares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the masculine stare of the Senate's Mead Committee fastened on a list of the haul. The committee had nothing against women, as such. It just wanted to know how much taxpayers' money shipbuilders had lavished on honorarious baubles. The million-dollar tally sheet, 130 pages long, did not tell who paid the bill. But the faces that launched 5,500 ships were a gold mine for gossipers...
...Garrett had got some good names (Henry Steele Commager, Jessamyn West, Frederic Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...
...when the Atomic Age cut loose its first appalling kick in history's womb. According to New York Timesman William L. Laurence, some witnesses at Alamogordo were moved by the actual event to perform a kind of primordial fire dance. But history-or rather the human ability to stare history straight in the eyes-is not yet tough enough to endure that sight. Instead of the dance, the movie shows Conant & Bush, still stretched on the ground, just solemnly shaking hands...
Today the citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
...party broke up after midnight, Morozov, now thoroughly relaxed, the plainclothesman's fish-eyed stare gone from his face, said: "You know the Major here and I often discuss political questions, but it gets boring. We each know exactly what the other is going to say. Now tonight it has been different. It has been interesting...