1944 25 Feb. 1/7 We've got that thousand-mile stare. Before we hit the southwest Pacific, we carried the army to Kiska and Attu.
1968 R. J. Lifton 86 Conditions like the ‘vacuum state’ or ‘thousand-mile stare’ may be thought of as apathy, but are also profound expressions of despair.
2015 (Nexis) 24 May (Sunday Life section) 15 I yarned with hippies, Vietnam vets and farmers with thousand-mile stares.