Word: daze
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...world was crushed" on hearing his father was missing and presumed dead in 2002: "[My mother] flung her arms around me, she said 'He's gone I think. I have lost him.' She wouldn't stop crying for ages," he said. "She wandered around the house in a daze like the rest of us." Robertson commented: "Anne Darwin clearly thought nothing of lying to her sons in this way and convincing them that their own father was lost at sea and dead in order to see this fraud through to its conclusion...
...Total Daze" And yet the battlefield seems an imperfect environment for widespread prescription of these medicines. LeJeune, who spent 15 months in Iraq before returning home in May 2004, says many more troops need help - pharmaceutical or otherwise - but don't get it because of fears that it will hurt their chance for promotion. "They don't want to destroy their career or make everybody go in a convoy to pick up your prescription," says LeJeune, now 34 and living in Utah. "In the civilian world, when you have a problem, you go to the doctor, and you have therapy...
...getting career counsel from the American Idol judges (their faces rendered in increasingly distorted funhouse images). "You should be in Vegas," Simon says. But when she gets there, ready to star in her classy aquatic revue, she finds she's not booked at Cirque du Soleil but at a Daze Inn motel where the water attraction is called Sunque du So Low. Ever the trouper, Dolores dons Elvis cape and shades and belts out "Viva Las Vegas," "It's Now or Never"and "My Way." So she's performing in the motel pool; so lightning strikes her. The lady...
...ground and searching him. The men spotted Al-Janabi's 15-year-old son nearby and gestured him into the hideout. Soon after, however, Hensley ordered everyone but Vela out of the hideout and released the boy. "I just sat there, in a kind of daze, with my pistol propped on my knee," Vela told the court. Then, Vela testified, Henlsey moved out of the way and said shoot. Vela did. But, said Vela, his response was a reflex and not a conscious decision. "I don't remember pulling the trigger," he said. "It took me a while to figure...
...eg’s fast and catchy writing skips back and forth between past and present with surprising ease. Though he occasionally lapses into unnecessary repetition, Høeg avoids sounding preachy as he drops tidbits of social criticism into his narrative. When Kasper is in a heartbroken daze, for example, he only “comes to his senses just as he [is] entering a store to buy a television. At that point, he understood how serious the situation was.” Høeg indeed does take his readers “to the edge?...