Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well wonder what would move otherwise deliberate, sensual, more-or-less well-adjusted people to bug out their eyes, desert their beds and friends, and throw down large doses of industrial strength instant Maxwell House. For some, (and such matters are impossible to quantify) a senior thesis is a pleasant opportunity, to write a truly trenchant essay concerning some topic of major interest. But for many others, those for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the product has no meaning, the motive force...
...extremes; he is either snooty or obsequious, asexual or consumed by satyriasis, teetotaling or drunk. He is basically conservative, and in favor of directing the bank more toward high finance and less toward small depositers, but he is also obsessively ambitious (something Alex is not (and pragmatic enough to desert any first principles that might be holding him back...
...well that no one would suspect that the acreage had been stripped. In contrast with those areas, which are well watered, much of the West's coal lands get less than 10 inches of rainfall a year. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences doubt that fragile desert vegetation will regrow on such dry earth after it has been disturbed by mining, no matter how much money is spent...
Despite his concern for the very young, most of the 70 poisonings Hartman treats every year involve teenagers. In part, this is because of their fondness for "natural" foods, like the "tea" brewed out of Jimson weed, a dangerous desert plant. Sometimes plants do damage without being consumed. A few years ago, for example, a California youth died from poisons in an oleander branch that he had used to skewer hot dogs over a campfire...
...nominee must stand or run or fall or whatever. The issue that most grips me is monogamy for Utah. Many otherwise quite sane politicians become livid at the mention of the Mormons, a curious sect recently invented by a "prophet" and confined for the most part to the Utah desert, where Mormon women live in harems and breed incontinently. They sound very nice to me, if overly energetic...