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Word: distractedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Uh, excuse me?" Distracted from my smooshing, I look up across the multicolored barrier of goody boxes and smeared glass countertop. My customer coughs again. "Uh, I wanted Heath bar, not Reeses, if that's okay?" Stifling an urge to scoop his eyes out and fling them into the goody...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

Roommates and visiting friends are another source of troublesome entertainment from the other side of the counter. If there's more than one friend visiting, a competition immediately starts to see who can make me screw up first. Once, distracted by a shouting friend, I let the blender slice into...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

Baboon life, says Strum, is an endless series of negotiations. The drama of their lives revolves not around sex or male intimidation but around alliances, around friendships. Baboons have a Japanese complexity of deferences and dominances. They live, it seems to a newcomer, in a constant state of distracted tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Control Data could afford to support its social conscience during good times, but when the computer industry slumped in the early 1980s, the company nearly collapsed from the weight of its commitments. Control Data's distracted managers were neglecting the firm's core technologies, like data-storage devices, while competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Companies: Two in Pursuit Of a Turnaround | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

"In order for us to win, it is highly important that we keep our minds on what we are doing, "Harvard Coach Joe Bernal said. "If we concentrate on the meet, things should work out. But if we are distracted by the pool, the crowd and the noise, there could...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: A Heated Meeting of Two Aquatic Giants | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

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