Word: dazed
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...Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted, 'There's my eleven!' grabbed her winnings and ran ... As she was disappearing, one croupier turned to the other and asked in a daze: 'Uh-did you see that eleven?' 'No,' said the other softly, his eyes still riveted on Ava's departing shape. 'Didn...
...reminiscences with other survivors was argumentative and well liquored. An acquaintance recalls considerable talk about Communism, and John, visibly annoyed, snorting: "You're all afraid of Communists. I'm afraid of Nazis." Those who saw him then thought that he was short tempered, nervous, almost in a daze. His wife said he was "mentally depressed." At the memorial ceremony in grisly Plötzensee Prison, he seemed haggard beyond his 44 years...
...Premier seemed in a daze, and sat gazing numbly, occasionally lighting a cigarette. He spoke once in sentences that trembled past his lips: "I am sure of my innocence. A man devoted his whole life to serve his country and yet he is charged with treason. I leave my fate in your hands. If ending Abdel Hady's life is in the interests of Egypt, let it end. I am still the Egyptian youth who served his country...
Days went by in a daze of weakness. All at once, Gibson realized that there were only seven people left alive-himself, another white man, four Javanese and a Chinese girl named Doris Lim, who had been a British secret agent. The Javanese attacked the other white man and began to eat him while he was still alive. The oldest Javanese died the same night...
...anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...