Word: staringer
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A correspondent, staring at the scene from the Missouri's No. 2 turret, whispered: "I don't know what they're going to call this; I hope it won't be the 'Missouri Compromise.' " But there was no element of compromise in the surrender...
The shape of things to come in the peacetime U.S. was still forming hazily, like ectoplasm at a spiritualists' meeting. But U.S. citizens, staring with a séance-sitter's skeptical fascination, began to nudge each other last week. Government and industry really seemed to be conjuring...
After the last shipboard game, he told a story. Two Londoners, he said, had been arguing about a passing cleric. Said one: "I say he's the Archbishop of Canterbury. I can see his gaiters." Said the other: "He's not." To settle a bet, the passerby was...
While window dressers wash down the mannequins in the department stores, Weegee shows the city asleep-in gutters, on fire escapes and park benches, six in a parked car. He photographs the dreamy abstracted faces watching the ambulance doctors at work. He catches the mayor off-guard, a Negro mother...
But Lobengula, Kruger, Rhodes-these three men are still Africa. A few miles from the site of the palace which was Lobengula's only monument stands one of the many statues of Rhodes, staring toward the north ("My hinterland," he called it). Kruger's frock-coated figure stands...