"(The) hate stare"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 26 20:54:39 UTC 2008
This phrase appears to be missing from the OED.
John Howard Griffin
_Black Like Me_
Boston: Houghtin Mifflin, 1961
p.53 et seq.
"She ... glared at me with such loathing [that] I knew [that] I was
receiving what the Negroes call _"the hate stare."_
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-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam'l Clemens
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