Word: clutter
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...think I can tell you what I like least about campaigning. It is those small periods of time between events that are totally lost, where it is impossible to do anything. A half-hour here, a half-hour there. You do not want to clutter your mind before a speech; you cannot break away to relax. These are lost moments...
...bridegroom wore hair and maroon velvet, the bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...could sketch and paint, seeking to grasp the precise feeling of the time of day and the weather in New England. An 1848 harbor scene, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, typifies Lane's airy style. The exactitude of his portrayal of the bustling seaport-the clutter of logs, cut boards and barrels surrounding workmen on the quays-is set off by a serene panorama of sailing vessels in the background...
Ironically, people have a natural reluctance to clutter their memories with clusters of letters. Even those in the midst of the highest acronymic concentrations occasionally lose one. During the Apollo 12 mission, according to The Washington Monthly, controllers discovered that a minor malfunction was due to something called the Digital Uplink Assembly. "We think we've figured it out-your DUA was off," they radioed to the vicinity of the moon. Replied Apollo: "What...
Cambodia won its independence from the French in 1953 without fighting and managed for years to live next door to the Viet Nam War without becoming a combatant. Now the struggle for Indochina, with all its suffering and sorrow, its clutter and filth, has engulfed the ancient kingdom of the Khmers. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Neff filed this report from its capital...