Word: drift
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...then, after high school, Smith moved 50 miles west along the Connecticut coast to Yale, where he would study geology and geophysics with hopes of becoming a weatherman. Baseball began to drift away...
...would not see as good Catholics. Benedict XVI has previously argued that it is not unhealthy for church to be a counter culture rather than a dominant player in secular Western society. He's willing to see it play the role of an oppositional minority to a cultural drift he sees at odds with Church teachings...
...hall where the show happens to be playing, he may drift in reverie to legendary hot summers past and recall that his parents, God-fearing Protestant Fundamentalists, "believed there was a verse in the Bible, they couldn't find it, but it was there, maybe in Leviticus somewhere, that forbade air conditioning." Thinking of religion may turn his mind to Father Emil, pastor of Lake Wobegon's Catholic congregation at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church, and his annual sermon on birth control, based on the precept "If you didn't want to go to Minneapolis...
...movie begins in present-day Paris, where Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) has spent the past 30 years working as an artist. However, as he reflects upon his son’s 13th birthday his thoughts drift back to his own 13th birthday and the life-changing events that preceded it. Before we know it, the film whisks us back to New York City’s Greenwich Village...
...downward drift in part reflects diminished confidence in the U.S. economy. Some currency traders have dumped dollars because they believe the recovery is coming to an end. The concern was reinforced last week when new Commerce Department figures showed that the economy in the second quarter grew at a 1.7% annual rate. That was well below the earlier estimate...