Word: dwelling
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Albright, however, had no time to dwell on the still simmering Middle East. A phone call from Jim O'Brien, a Balkans aide sitting in his State Department office watching CNN, was patched in to her cabin. O'Brien was looking at "the most dramatic pictures" he'd seen on the screen in a long time, he told her. Albright scribbled notes on a pad and rushed to the back of the plane where reporters traveling with her sat. Opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica must now "be recognized as President," she said excitedly. Albright hurried to her forward cabin to phone...
...really frusturating to have Philomena's goal called back," Ahn said. "If didn't get the goal we should have definitely had a penalty. The other team lifted the ball in the air but you can't dwell on it. We still had time and plenty of opportunities...
...this late date, I don't want to dwell on my little brother taking my new bike without permission back in 1974. What's important is we both know he was wrong, and I accept his apology. "What apology?" he asked the other day when I stopped by his apartment in Boston in the middle of my vacation. I had a laundry emergency. "I accept, Big Man," I said, elbowing him aside to get to his stash of Liquid Tide...
...pleasant to have someone concerned about you and your health. I was brought up to think about others, not about myself, and if the conversation should dwell on me, to change the subject quickly. But now, in the privacy of an examining room, I was accorded the great privilege of talking about me, my feelings and aches and what's happening here and here and down here, and the doctor was not so bored to hear about it. He found me interesting and looked into my eyes and my ears and my nose. He thumped my chest...
...President Clinton may cling to a separation of church and state that allows him to share his latest Monica mea culpa with an audience of forgiving preachers, only to free himself to dwell on his secular achievements when he addresses the party convention on Monday night. But that wouldn't be the first instance in which the President has found himself out of step with the Gore campaign...