Word: distractedness
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Fleming has yet to find his scoring touch this season and recently suffered a tragic loss in his family, which seems to have distracted him further this past week.
JOSEPH McCARTHY--America's premier Red-hunter--levelled accusations of treason at people he knew nothing about, often not even their names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page...
Other journalists successfully hid rolls of film in their pants, sewed video cassettes into the lining of coats, and photographed notes for easier concealment. Mark Phillips, 33, a London-based correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., smuggled out a videotape containing reports from CBC, CBS, NBC and BBC in the...
Cautioning himself against fatalism, he addressed the ball after a round of polite applause. The gallery consisted of a few golf cognoscenti, out to see potential comers on the tour. They all recognized him by now. ("There's Jackson." "He'll be past his prime before he makes the tour...
Although no one spells it out, this "new emotion" sounds like the tactile knowledge of what being alive now, thanks to science and space probes, means: sitting on a crowded planet that is moving very fast. In such a situation, Mooney's narrative suggests, everything that happens matters to...