Word: detour
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...plan was to pursue journalism for two years and then return to school to study law but the detour ended up being a little longer than that,” Frank explains. “It was important for me to spend some time in the real world...to give me a perspective outside the classroom...
...thing you must do before graduation: Take a detour...
...thing you must do before graduation: Take a detour...
...engineers. If NASA history has proved anything, administrators say, it's that intermediate space goals can sometimes turn into ends in themselves. "We could easily get bogged down on the moon and never get to Mars, at least not in this century," warns Murray. That kind of long-term detour, says Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society and author of The Case for Mars, is "the same swindle we fell for on the space station...
...friend walking up the block, I charged toward her with arms outstretched only to realize when I was within arms-length that she was in fact a 70 year-old woman, now clutching for the can of mace stored in her hand bag. Making a quick detour to the woman’s left, I proceeded to play off the mis-fired hello by pretending it was actually intended for the only figure on the street—a parking meter...