Word: ajar
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...deal of time riding airport conveyor belts to the next terminal, and the next. And to me that’s what traveling on a regimented holiday feels like—terminal, static, stuck. Life seems to go on hold as soon as you go on holiday, your mouth ajar, thumb perpetually stuck in the travel guide...
...Lock your doors, in both cases the doors were left ajar,” Hegarty wrote...
Upon entering the 21st Amendment, the debate lulled momentarily as we were shown to a cozy set of tables in the back of the dimly lit bar. The Tudor-style windows were left ajar so that passersby could hear Harvard’s boisterous contributions to the pantheon of political theory. The ROTC discussion degenerated into yells of “I think you’re wrong!” and, “Of course you do, you’re a Democrat!” It was clear that this debate would not die without an interruption?...
...telling forces lesbian and gay Wyomingites to lie, or at least to omit details in everyday conversation. When Padgett decided to run for city council last year, he complied with the rules, sort of. To extend a metaphor, he resided in the closet but kept its door ajar. He was living in the same house as his partner, Jason Marsden, 31, and he gave that address as his campaign headquarters. Marsden, executive director of a conservation group, came out in a Casper Star-Tribune op-ed shortly after the Shepard murder, so everyone knew he was gay. "Honestly, if anyone...
...awry in the past. In 1933 Lord Rutherford, the greatest nuclear expert of his time, famously dismissed as "moonshine" any practical relevance of nuclear energy. So in thinking about the future, we would do well to follow two guidelines. First, we should leave our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts that now seem on the wild, speculative fringe of possibility. And second, we should remember that while new discoveries will offer marvelous prospects, they will also have a dark side. Some fear that nanotechnology could prove to be one of the 21st century's darker technologies, as potentially...