Word: staring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...
...nation's biggest states. At press conferences, Warren was relaxed and expansive. Duff, in what his personal publicity men warned him was his first appearance on the "big time," was nervous at first, clasping and unclasping his big, brown-freckled hands, answering abruptly, hunching over to stare at his shoes between questions...
Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner...
Like the Eiffel Tower. Today Picasso's own face is leathery, seamed and wrinkled, illuminated by big dark eyes which sometimes sparkle but more often stare off into the distance. He is old and fat, but still powerful: his chest and belly, bristling with white, goatlike hairs, are mahogany-tanned. At 68, he still dominates the whole canvas of modern...
...after the big, rain-drenched Whitsuntide rally ended with torchlights and fireworks, several thousand Communist kids invaded Western Berlin. But it was not the kind of invasion that the Communists had originally planned. The kids from Eastern Germany swarmed into the free part of Berlin to stare longingly at the well-filled shopwindows, at the candy counters and the shelves of white bread. Few of the youngsters had money to buy these rare treasures, but West Berliners took them into shops and bought them food, and even clothing and shoes...