Word: stares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked...
...notable men on the faculty. He was a spiky-haired scholar, with a hulking figure, a florid face, and a cold contempt for the dull and dimwitted. His lectures on literature were polished performances, in which Erskine paused only to chuckle before dropping one of his epigrams, or to stare icily at some latecomer making his way to a seat. Students flocked to hear him, and in the evenings, if he happened to be monologuing at some club or commons room, crowded about his chair...
...several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called "American spy hysteria." Last week, when one of their top atomic scientists was arrested as a Russian spy, the superior British stare turned slightly glassy. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, once a trusted top-level worker at the U.S. Atomic Laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex., had been detected, not by famed British Intelligence or Scotland Yard, but by the FBI, whom the British called into the case. Fuchs, said the FBI, had made a partial confession. He had been a secret member of the Communist Party...
...introduction of the joke at the beginning of the movie is its funniest part. An atmosphere of disaster grips the small island of Todday in the Hebrides: old men stare blankly, seeing no future in their lives, young men walk glumly through the streets, and children huddle in dark corners. Why has life on Todday become so sad? Because on all the island there is no whiskey! The plight of Scotsmen without their whiskey is dragged out to its fullest...