Word: staring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bouncing along on a Manhattan subway last May, innocent Leo Pigola, 45, shifted nervously under the hard, steady stare of a middle-aged woman who was seated across the aisle. When the woman asked: "Do I know you?" and "Did you ever live near Eighth Street and Second Avenue?" timid Mr. Pigola had had enough. Explaining that he came from Paterson, N. J., he slipped off the train at the next stop...
...Palm Beach, Fla. stare-fleeing Greta Garbo shared stares with her latest traveling companion, Dietitian Bengamin Gayelord Hauser...
...belongs to British Actor Edmund Gwenn for a first-rate performance as the butler who is submissive, not subservient. But most of the entertainment in The Earl of Chicago, and that is plenty, is provided by Robert Montgomery's transformation of his playboy grin into a fixed moronic stare, his playboy titter into a loony hee-hee, his playboy aplomb into gangster arrogance...
Like a cosmic dentist's drill suddenly withdrawn, the quake stopped. Turks scrambled to their still-trembling feet. Some returned to what was left of their homes to stare or scrabble for loved ones. Those who remembered the repetitious earthquake of April 1938 stayed in the fields. Others prostrated themselves.before their prostrate mosques, calling on Allah. Hardly had they thanked their God for sparing them when a new shock came. Between two and five that morning the earth quaked four terrible times. When it was all over...