Word: staring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue seems to have become a skin disease...
...Cleveland Clinic's Irvine H. Page (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Arthur C. Corcoran. Harvard's Fredrick J. Stare, New York University's Herbert Pollack and Charles F. Wilkinson...
...face of this excellence, Erich Segal's Romeo suffered slightly. He delivered his lines effectively, but too often he exchanged light-of-love look for a wide-eyed stare...
...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...
...satellite will not be launched in its orbit for a considerable time to come (no one wants to say just when), but that is no reason why the teams that are training to track it should stare at an empty sky. An airplane flying at moderate speed at a moderate altitude can pretend, for research purposes, to be a satellite swinging around its orbit at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles...