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Word: distractedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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I break away from my baffled friends, sprint madly up Mass. Ave. with a distracted look in my eyes, and disappear into the mist. It's not clear whether or not I graduate or whether I am disowned.

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Graduation and Glass Flowers | 7/31/1987 | See Source »

Although Biden stayed in the Senate, his loss left him morose and distracted. His characteristic ebullience did not re-emerge until 1975, when he met Jill Jacobs, a schoolteacher, whom he married two years later. By then, Biden, still an obscure junior Senator, was beginning to eye the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Joe Biden: Orator for the Next Generation | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

When the liberal economist's tenure appointment came up before the 30-man Board of Overseers in the spring of 1948, it was met with severe hostility and nearly was rejected. In a dramatic eleventh-hour maneuver, the late U.S. District Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27 was able to push...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: An Evolving Partnership | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

1. Trashing My Room Freshman Year. Committed to one of `Canaday Hell's' psycho singles because I had the temerity to ask for a private bedroom, I vented my displeasure on that closet-sized space at the end of the year. Despite destroying the walls and the door with a...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Like a Bat Out of Hell | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

Breuning, 34, concedes that he was distracted by personal problems while some of his work was in progress but insists that the NIMH panel "did a shoddy, sloppy investigation." Now the director of psychological services at the Polk Center, in Polk, Pa., Breuning left the University of Pittsburgh in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: It Was Too Good to Be True | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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