Word: stare
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...familiar to them is the history of the period immediately before it-the sequence of post-War settlements, conferences, treaties that began when the Armistice was signed. Briand with his drooping lips and shaggy head, Stresemann with his dueling scars, Sir Austen Chamberlain with his monocle, his glassy stare and elegance of dress, are names in history books for high-school students, dim recollections for those students' parents...
Problems that the board must surmount are varied; speeches must be more sharply worded than necessary on the stare; the number of characters speaking in one scene must be limited to prevent confusion; the time element must be surmounted; all sounds must be mentioned by the characters in the play so that they can be clearly recognized. All these factors contribute to the smoothness of the production and are apparent weaknesses in present radio drama...
Tiger Fox, a cagey Negro fighter, was 3-to-1 favorite. But Jimmy Grippo was not dismayed. In the last two years his hypnotic stare had never let him down. Before each fight he put burly, clumsy young Bettina through a ritual that was publicized as a hypnotic treatment; after each fight his protege emerged undefeated...
While Manager Grippo continued to stare long range, the Tiger, who had built up a creditable reputation on his crushing punches, patted Bettina with no more force than a pussy cat's paw. In the eighth round, just as the Beaconites were beginning to yawn, the magic worked. Bettina's left hooks floored Grippo's victim twice in quick succession and in the middle of the next round the Tiger, staring stupidly, staggered to a neutral corner...
Clinging to this unseen, vertical barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...