Word: distractedness
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enlisted a friend and fellow writer to visit each day so they could write their respective novels together. At times, the frail author slept 16 hours a day, waking for a few hours to write, then dozing again. But her mother Faye and sister Laurie are convinced that writing distracted...
AT 1 P.M. LAST TUESDAY, RETIRED General Colin Powell was dutifully signing books at a Wal-Mart in suburban Fort Worth when he noticed that the line of eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For...
The O.J. Simpson verdict last week not only overshadowed Powell's barnstorming will-he-or-won't-he book tour but also distracted national attention from the President's veto of a congressional budget proposal, the Republican plan to cut Medicare and the strenuous antics of all the other real...
All that bloodshed has has distracted attention away from a looming crisis that may open a new front of conflict in the wake of the election. Turkey's military has given notice of its intention to challenge the election's outcome in Kirkuk, the oil-rich northern city coveted by...
“When you love science as much as I do, you just don’t want to be distracted from it. You try to ignore these problems,” she says.