Word: distractive
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Harvard did not let this loss distract them. "We still had confidence which was key and we played better in the third and fourth game," said Elissa Hart...
...water supply--all to little effect. Neighbors have told police that Allen frequently canned food and stored bottled water because the well on her property had run dry. "We considered sending in a stray dog," says Terrance Gainer, director of the Illinois State Police, hoping that would distract her and calm her down. But then the police learned that she was not particularly partial to pets. Says Gainer: "If she'd just give me five minutes, I could talk her out. But she refuses to talk...
...which telescoped out to the middle of the field, where a small elevated stage awaited them. Here, they played such songs as "Crazy Woman," "The Last Time" and "Sympathy for the Devil" isolated in the very midst of the thousands of screaming fans, without any lights or effects to distract. If their point was to show that they didn't need the hype to be good, than they proved it well, as the crowd seemed to feel a special connection with the group during this segment. This absence of spectacle only made it seem more spectacular when they then walked...
...Brad told me it wasn't over any one thing." What split the Pitts became the week's favorite guessing game, with answers ranging from new co-stars (Pitt is currently in New York City making Meet Joe Black) to suggestions that it's all a ploy designed to distract the press from what would have been the year's most ogled nuptials. Pitt already faced one unwelcome torrent of attention this month when it was revealed that Heinrich Harrer, the character he plays in Seven Years in Tibet, who is meant to be a good guy, went...
...against heresy: any concrete evidence the government or anyone else unearths to prove that the crash was strictly terrestrial is obviously engineered--it's a cannier brand of fundamentalism. The appearance of skeptical articles in a national magazine like this one could be part of a disinformation campaign to distract letter-to-the-editor-writing UFOlogists from more fruitful pursuits. For all you know, this author may be a member of an ultra-top-secret National Security Council committee with a terribly spooky acronym...