Word: staring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...
...looting and disorderliness. What was worse, most Europeans got the impression from extensive U.S. Army black marketing that most Americans will do anything for money. Nor could the billeting of U.S. officers' families in comfortable houses amidst a ruined people (quite justified) fail to cause ill will. The stare with which the children of the conquerors confronted the children of the conquered (see cut) might be prolonged uncomfortably for generations...
...thousands of children who devoured her books took it for granted that Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...
Sargent Kennedy leaned back in his chair and scrutinized the khaki-clad private with deanlike eye. Watching the minutes of his furlough tick by, the private gave the dean a flshy, enlisted-man's stare--the attentive, ingratiating stare that might go with muddy boots or non-G.I. shoes...
...human guinea pig will be strapped in a seat mounted on gimbals, so that it can be locked in any position. The air he breathes can be pumped away to simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal organs. Before his eyes, little lights will flash...