Word: staring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could do two things-stare at the white ceiling, and think. Last week Reuther told New York Post Reporter James A. Wechsler what he had been thinking about. He had grown certain that there was a real chance to unite all branches of U.S. organized labor...
This operation is, in practice, considerably less rigid and more fallible than it may look on paper. The researchers' dots do not eliminate all error, though the system catches scores of mistakes every week. Writers "freeze up" on stories and stare out the window for hours. Editors get impossible ideas that waste the time of writers, researchers and correspondents. Even the managing editor sometimes gets a literary allusion wrong...
...hour, the ship's placid routine was not disturbed. Then, at fire and boat drill, Tomas Montanez was missed. The ship turned back upon her course. Officers engaged in minute calculations. Sailors swarmed up to the crosstrees and passengers lined the rails to stare at the twinkling, pitiless face of the sea. Though there was no hope that Tomas Montanez would be found, the curious code of civilization demanded that a thorough search be made. Then, amazingly, after an hour and a quarter, a passenger raised a shout...
...lobby of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, people stopped to stare. With no hum, no click and no whir, a machine that looked like a cross between a radio and a teletype was rolling out a pony-size newspaper page. Under the headline MICHAEL I ABDICATES, it printed a picture of Michael and Princess Anne (see FOREIGN NEWS). The dinky paper was the maiden issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer's facsimile edition...
Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...