Word: stare
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...Minuteman waits in its silo, its guidance system will stare fixedly at the North Star, its silent gyroscope will spin ceaselessly. Cranked into its memory drums will be the data to guide the missile to any one of several targets. The guidance system itself cannot be jammed by electronics once it is set in motion...
...running fight along the canals of Ba Xuyen province, army patrols killed six Viet Cong guerrillas, and in similar incidents, South Vietnamese often gathered to stare curiously at the dead guerrillas. In the coastal jungles of Phu Yen province, the Viet Cong ambushed and wiped out 40 civil guards. A rickety train chugging up from Saigon to Nhatrang was derailed; in the confusion seven government soldiers vanished, either captured by the Viet Cong or deserting to them. Day after day, the war-formless, ferocious, without front lines-grew in intensity...
...self-portraits do not look like each other because they are only facets of himself (he has nicknames for them). But they all have the same brooding eyes. A Lasansky scene can be feverish with clashing lines and spinning faces, or one lonely figure may look up to stare starkly into space. Either way, there is always an air of mourning. The world that Lasansky pictures is really two: the one that is perpetually dying and the other that must watch and grieve...
Pearmain, who now lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada, was one of the witness whom Auchter said could not attend a hearing this week. He refused to name any other witnesses, because "we don't want to tip out whole hand to Dr. Stare...
...feel any personal animosity toward Dr. Stare," Auchter remarked yesterday...