Word: stare
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...reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children determine to assert their authority over both parents by refusing to attend the wedding. "Please," Father piteously pleads, while the children stare stonily at their comic books, "please come to my wedding. You know, you can't remain children forever." And why not? Father obviously...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Murrow stare falls on ex-Prexy Harry S. Truman and British ex-P.M. Clem Attlee. Their topic: the differences between U.S. and British constitutional government...
...apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck by an avalanche of garbage-and then sink quietly through a 6-ft. hole that somebody has carelessly knocked in the floor...
...camera's stare had perhaps added to the seemly behavior of the members of the House of Commons, who entered the lordly precincts solemnly-unlike the day "when Queen Victoria opened her first Parliament and the members of Commons thundered in like steeplechasers, racing each other to the Bar, and one of the members for Sheffield dislocated his shoulder...
...past five years the federal government has instituted research programs to ascertain whether cancer was caused by milk-drinking. Stare had no comment on this...