Word: stares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck by an avalanche of garbage-and then sink quietly through a 6-ft. hole that somebody has carelessly knocked in the floor...
...camera's stare had perhaps added to the seemly behavior of the members of the House of Commons, who entered the lordly precincts solemnly-unlike the day "when Queen Victoria opened her first Parliament and the members of Commons thundered in like steeplechasers, racing each other to the Bar, and one of the members for Sheffield dislocated his shoulder...
...Stare does not advocate any restriction in Harvard dining halls, though. "Too much milk fills up a person's stomach and crowds out the other essentials, but it seems to me that Harvard men eat like horses anyway," he commented...
...Milk is a highly desirable food for infants, children and adolescents" but is not "an essential constituent of adults' diets," Stare told a group present for the final day of a four day course in "Epidemiology and Control of Milkborne Disease...
...past five years the federal government has instituted research programs to ascertain whether cancer was caused by milk-drinking. Stare had no comment on this...