Word: staring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis, Mo., a bandit, flourishing a revolver, entered a restaurant late one night. To James Morkides, the night manager, the bandit resembled a ferocious lion, and he remembered having read that lions may be cowed by a cold, unswerving stare. Coldly, unswervingly he fixed his eye upon the intruder, who falteringly dropped his pistol, turned, fled...
...with the fall of a dynasty or the decay of a lofty empire. May seems to bring with it the turbid ebb and flow of human tragedy along with divisionals. The Vagabond at such a time is wont to cram his briar, lounge in a chair and stare at the smoke as it floats in fragile clouds to the ceiling. A college generation is passing. That this is all foolish sentimentalism he realizes, but nevertheless, it is a mood that will not be denied. He has never quite brought himself to the realization that change is the strongest...
...shortly after the rioting which followed last spring's conflagration. Harrowed by remorse, he asked to be placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt with Prisoners Grate and Gibbons...
...Bismarck. So quickly did they devour tindery old boards and plaster and dry bales of official papers, that by noon all that was left of the 46-year-old building was smoking rubble. When the State was still part of Dakkota Territory, frontiersmen traveled long western miles to stare in pride and wonder at the structure's once famed "gingerbread" architecture...
...neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions. We have often wished for some statute akin to mortmain to remove the dead hand of tradition from the domain of ideas. . . ." Putting aside "the stereotyped method of constitutional interpretation and construction" and the judicial principle of citing superior decisions (stare decisis] Judge Clark declared: "We are quite willing to stand flatfootedly on our thesis that the scientific approach