Word: gazing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This phenomenon has had almost as strong an effect on the self-made cowboy as it has on his juvenile admirers. Boyd-who, at 55, is an erect, ruddy man with a direct gaze, a quick smile, and a surprising air of authority and command-now has an almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber...
...years, roly-poly George E. Allen bobbed around Washington like a pneumatic rubber horse; everybody liked to ride him and he was always good for a horse laugh. Then he disappeared from the public gaze. George was back tending to his well-paying private affairs which have made him a millionaire...
...enter the busy port of Pusan. Over its outskirts two helicopters are flying. Most of the Koreans on the highway look briefly up, then down again, as the helicopters hover and pass. But one, a boy of perhaps seven or eight, stares upward at the monstrous things with a gaze of fixed and bright fascination. His eyes shine, his lips are parted, and I think of an American boy gazing at his first bicycle on a Christmas morning...
...handsome former truck driver who looks like Tyrone Power, Castellanos had put on a dashing personal campaign. He and his pretty wife Laudelina buzzed through town in a fishtail Cadillac, reminded everyone how his administration had filled the city's bathtubs. In downtown Havana, citizens came to gaze admiringly at an election propaganda waterfall spurting brightly over an aluminum sheet. At week's end unofficial tallies showed 171,828 votes for Castellanos to 119,555 for his opponent, merry Antonio Prío Socarrás, the Auténtico (government) party's candidate, brother of Cuba...
Cambridge's workmen didn't snub the rumors or try to stifle them. Forthrightly and honestly, they blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...