Word: distractibility
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Presidential candidates on all tickets are also heavily involved in non-council campus activities that may distract from the fervor of their campaigns...
...distract him by offering some raisins, and he backs away, laughing. Our guide Ahmed explains that the Taliban are fasting. It's Ramadan. On the other side of the world, Americans are waking up to Thanksgiving Day, football and turkey. A Washington Post reporter stranded here with me starts describing with considerable artistry the drool-inducing taste of his mother's turkey stuffing. We tell him to stop...
...mixture of the picturesque and the pornographic. Driving through alpine valleys, we passed clusters of wooden houses decorated with paintings of flowers, the inevitable dragons and, on either side of the door, huge penises. The phalluses, Tempa, our guide, explained, are meant to startle: families paint them to distract any evil spirits thinking of entering. We reached Thimphu in the late afternoon. Home to just 40,000 people, the capital scarcely qualifies as a city. Brightly painted facades and narrow lanes stretching up to the wooded slopes of giant mountains reinforce the feeling of a medieval mountain village. King Wangchuck...
...break the roof, set fire to the place as a parting gift.” Particularly not in the same song (“Summer Days”). But Dylan isn’t all bluster and arson: “I need something strong to distract my mind / I’m going to look at you ‘til my eyes go blind,” is one of the more beautiful lyrics anyone has written for a while, and his admission that “Your days are numbered / So are mine,” makes...
...last thing Gusmorino wants, according to many council members, is to have a contentious political issue distract the group from the fulfillment of his campaign platform of “improving student life, standing up for students, saving students money and enhancing the academic experience...