Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immersed the dishes in the Charles River, a group of curious on-lookers started to gather along the bank. "Why is that guy standing in the river?" one of them said...
...craft as "Kuwait 422," a hijacker snapped back, "No! Plane of Martyrs!" Replied the tower: "Sorry, Plane of Martyrs." As the hostages sweltered inside their metal prison, planeloads of European vacationers came and went at the Larnaca field, wind surfers skittered across the sea next to the runway, and curious Cypriot families wandered among the journalists clustered along the airport road...
There is the mystery of Bechstein's early years. Bechstein's mother died under peculiar circumstances when he was young. Throughout the novel, he grows ever more curious about how and why his mother died...
Spoon dropping is not the only curious Cambridge custom. Because students apply to specific colleges within both Cambridge and Oxford, the colleges are more tightly knit than the Harvard houses. Each one has its own customs and identity...
...Come here, kid, I've got something to show you," Ciavaglia said. Muzzatti was curious, so he ventured out of his front door...