Word: stare
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...When you drag the children out of their hovels into the light of day, they all show the same familiar signs: narrow shoulders, protruding Adam's apple, spidery legs, earth-colored, leathery skin, huge eyes in huge heads. Worst of all, they have the dull, fixed stare of children who have never laughed...
Walking along in the soft light, the President remarked approvingly that few people seem to recognize him during his strolls (none of the dozen who had passed had turned to stare). After almost a year as President, the President was still surprised at the clamor produced by his public appearances; he thought that even a President ought to have a little privacy...
...yearning for rain during a drought. . . . In universities, the girls are like refugees who see meat and fish before them; girl students in enticing, flowery clothes gather around ragged boy students . . . competing with each other to gain [their] favors. . . . In the streets, no more is it men who stare at women, but instead women who steal glances...
Most 20th-century artists feel the presence of a little black rival in their studios. A round glass eye seems to stare fixedly over their shoulders and to imply, with an occasional clicking wink, that the camera can see and record better than they...
That was how Joe Martin, Philadelphia Inquirer photographer-off duty at the time-got a picture of tragedy (see cut). All over the U.S. last week, editors made room for it, and readers paused to stare at Mrs. Vera Blackson, whose two children had just died in a fire...