Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosslyn, Va., office tower overlooking the capital's monuments, was nurtured about three years ago in a bungalow mere blocks away from Neuharth's home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; the Gannett team worked behind windows coated with reflective paper to discourage the curious. By April 1981 the plan had progressed to prototype issues, which were mailed to public figures, journalists and financial analysts for comment. Some of the reaction was pungent. Publisher Joe Murray of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Lufkin, Texas, News returned his dummy issue after scrawling across the top, "Forget the whole thing...
Ogle, when comparing her circumstances with others', evinces the curious reverse reasoning that the logic of the aid office seems to inspire. "My father's salary went down some this year," she says, "so, in a way, I guess that was lucky...
...sinister pack of bureaucrats who stifle the simple, pure-hearted spirits of the U. F. O. witnessers. Indiana Jones, the anthropologist hero of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is spared the ark's deadly wrath only because he refuses to look at it, hardly the most scientifically curious of approaches. The various technicians who tromp through the haunted house in "Poltergiest" are useless, for all their sophisticated machinery, in the face of the specters who have set up shop there...
...GOLDENBERG'S restaurant is invariably packed, even during the lazy month of August. The foremost kosher restaurant in the picturesque Jewish quarter of Paris, Goldenberg's attracts tourists and locals, businessmen and immigrant workers, the curious and the hungry. And so it was a few Mondays ago at 1:15 p.m.: a tight squeeze by the bar, a line at the deli counter, animated conversation around the tables. Later, someone was to call it a perfect setting for a massacre...
...right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause...