Word: awols
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...before my entire company was destroyed and temporary amnesia forced me to wander aimlessly through Europe searching for answers that never existed. It was here that I picked up smoking and mendacity. My only acquaintance was Lt. Slothrop, a rotund and oversexed Harvard alumnus who happened to be an AWOL American...
...then for two weeks, Sanders stopped trying altogether. He went AWOL from his welfare-to-work job, from parole and even from his mother's church, which he'd been attending every Sunday since his release. "I just got under the covers and let the TV watch me," he said. The phone would ring, and he would jump all over it. "I was hoping it would be someone who cared about me, but it was those telemarketers." He briefly dated a woman, but she was embarrassed that he couldn't buy her dinner. He ended the relationship, saying...
...foil an attempt to assassinate Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), who is about to become the first major African-American nominee for President. People in Bauer's agency may be in on the hit, so he can't trust anyone. Oh, and his teenage daughter (Elisha Cuthbert) is AWOL in a van with two skeevy-seeming young men. At the end of the pilot, it's 1 a.m., and he doesn't know where his daughter or the killer is. "If you lay all this on one guy," says Cochran, "he won't be getting any sleep, and hopefully...
...shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages he had trained himself not to think in anymore," a man once--and perhaps still--intent on disrupting what he calls "the American conspiracy." He probably seemed merely unsettling to Egan while...
...thinking, Sure, George, you don't have to deal with airline nightmares, brain-dead service people, broken air conditioners or AWOL room service. Actually, he does when he travels, and he doesn't put up with hassles. And neither should you. Got a problem with a room? Is a waiter's performance less than acceptable? Terpilowski advises that you ask for the manager and state your case. Just keep in mind that a reasonable request will almost always be honored. "A little human kindness and understanding may get you more than you asked for," he says...