Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe's speaking with a strong and effective voice in the world, it can only be in the political form advocated by France: a compact between the states, not some faceless amalgam of regions governed by a parliamentary regime of bankrupt political parties, speaking Esperanto and cast adrift from their rich cultural and intellectual heritages...
...months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...
Some Americans who have read The Tale of Kieu in French have objected to its "unhappy" ending. Although Kieu had pledged to marry the scholar Kim Trong, she found upon her return from 15 years adrift that she could not sustain more than a platonic relationship. At the time the disaster struck Kieu's family, Kim had been performing mourning rites for a relative in a distant province for several years. Kieu's parents and her sister Van, whom she had asked to marry Kim before she left home, insisted that Kieu follow through with her marriage pledge. Kieu finally...
...Herald Tribune folded, and soon the cold war began to fade as a big, continuing story. Freidin found himself adrift, his expertise devalued, the demand for his byline sinking. It is a common situation for aging journalists who have committed themselves to one subject or cause. "I wanted to do a book on the States," he recalls, "but my problem was how I could get an angle. I went to the 1968 conventions, and at the Republican Convention I met Murray Chotiner...
...royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome in 1527 and now, by a quite oneiric fluke of luck, became impresario of all the royal studios and workshops...