Word: stares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical point of her visit. When kindly old Paul Wooton of the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced coyly during a speech of welcome that her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was "master of his own house," she gave Wooton what could only be described as a gelid and queenly stare. But she smiled as he finished, listened gracefully to four more speeches...
...resignation as Prime Minister. His three-week. Truman-style tour through the provinces had left him pale and exhausted. Three nights before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went to a local Socialist club to hear the returns. He sat with his back to the board, seldom turning to watch it. Every now & then...
Time was when a Radcliffe girl could get up in the morning, brush her teeth, and go downstairs to stare at a fried egg in stony silence. The egg generally seemed to be staring back, and after bumming a cigarette from a friend, she could make her nine o'clock class with five minutes to spare...
...starchy English diet, gobbled calorie-packed fudge and ice cream between meals, swam three or four hours every day. After an evening of gin rummy, she turned in promptly at 9:30. As the weeks wore on, with no slackening of the rough waters, Florence would stare gloomily out the window at the spiteful grey...
...London night life goes on in the small private clubs from about 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. After this, if you want to go on drinking, you either go to a private party or retire to your hotel room and stare moodily at the wallpaper which, in London, has the habit of staring back...