Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration with a plan to win the war was replaced by an Administration with a plan to end the war, the suffering seemed to go on forever. So a generation of American writers has come to look at the central mechanics of American life with a deep, stunned, curious detachment...
...center of the red-and-white-striped big top, Arlene Yaple, 63, surveys her domain: prize pumpkins, homemade brownies, dried cornstalks, okra and an American flag crafted of apples and grapes. Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by, while curious passers-by gape at a 325-lb. squash lying near Yaple's feet. Above the huge oval ring where the plump, gray-haired woman is sitting hangs a carefully lettered wooden sign that reads, "Arlene Yaple: for 35 years superintendent of Granges and Big Top displays. Danbury Fair thanks...
Jeff S. Martin '82, the Lampoon's president, said yesterday he has already received several calls from "people curious about grants." He added, "Please tell people to stpo calling...
From their seats, Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Sol Linowitz, Carter's former Middle East envoy, peered forward, curious about the Presidents...
...hours that followed, as wire service, radio, newspaper and television reporters scrambled for more information in the face of a virtual news blackout in Cairo (airports closed, satellite transmissions embargoed, the government silent), a curious thing happened...