Word: stares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been used on the swept-back hair, but the cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina...
...night. To the east, the moonlit rails turn molten in the Popsicle-or-ange sunrise. This is the time of day a kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...
Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said yesterday that the consumption of large doses of Vitamins A and D entails a "certain hazard." Ninety-five per cent of the population does not require vitamins in addition to a normal diet, he said...
...Variety is the sound principle of diet," said Stare. A sufficiently varied diet contains "all the vitamins you need," he said...
...Stare added that he knows of no one among the approximately 150 people working in nutrition at the School of Public Health who takes vitamin supplements...