Word: interruptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After my sprint through the desks, from Culture to National, from Foreign to Financial, I'd settle down with my morning crossword puzzle until the first batch of copy came my way. There was never time to read the paper the way I'd like; inevitably, someone would interrupt me as I neared the Op-Ed page. Like a Pavlovian dog, an early morning editor would yell "Copy!" at the top of his lungs. This didn't mean he wanted a piece of copy, or a copy made of some article. Instead he wanted me, Joe Copy...
...four-building complex in the medical area, houses over 40,000 animals on any given day. The air is antiseptic clean and only occasional patches of sawdust interrupt the endless whiteness of the corridors. Over 225,000 mice and rats pass through the ARC in a year. Most are used in "acute" experiments--operations where the animal is killed. Although Charlwood is responsible for the well-being of all the animals in ARC, the final responsibility, he says, lies with the investigator...
...happened in the 1960s." Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, cited another reason for the relative quiet: "The vast majority of students were only 10 or 11 when we last had a draft. They are only vaguely aware that something is about to interrupt their lives...
...wholly satisfied with the life of an artist. But in essence, the very existence of his poems is a resolution of his inner crisis. The poet deserves a great deal of credit for posing his difficult questions with such dexterity. All too often, contemporary poets feel compelled to interrupt fluent verse with awkward interrogation...
...years after he left Belfast.) These poems must be considered the centerpiece of Field Work, and are wonderfully successful in their fusion of reach and reticence. In them, Heaney also demonstrates that versification is not extinct. He chisels rhymes out of unlikely word combinations, and simultaneously knows when to interrupt his alliteration with parenthetical asides...