Word: larking
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...least one think tank working for it. Think tanks usually work on a whole range of problems at the same time: strategic weaponry, nuclear contingency plans, new ideas for preventing and fighting crime, stinging rebukes to Federal agencies, development of HoJo Cola, the Lark filter, freeze-dried foods, the location of Disneyland and thousands of other problems land desired innovations...
Weller--a graduated from Brandeis in '65--has put together a memoir of the middle nineteen-sixties, those years of "Good Day Sunshine" when a peace march could still be a lark and graduate school a respectable alternative. His characters live precariously on the brink of graduation: Bob, a music student who contemplates submitting to the draft as the simplest way to end it all. Kathy, who's convinced that by telling Bob he gave her her first orgasm she's given him the confidence to go on to a brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with...
...young lawyers, trying to serve a subpoena on a TV-repair store owner, thought it would be a lark to slip into their recalcitrant quarry's headquarters and surprise him. But when they got inside, one of them was elbowed in the stomach, and an ominous-looking man said to his boss, "If they gave that paper to me, I'd just put a bullet in em." The attorneys barely managed to talk their...
...Elizabeth of Devereux is a study in willful, stony obduracy. By contrast, the role of Elizabeth's archrival and victim Maria is mercurial and passionate, offering Sills an ideal opportunity to display her gift for developing a character. In her first scene, Sills is a sweet-voiced lark of a girl enjoying the open sky and the fragrant fields. Moments later she is off on a rapturous, throaty love duet with the Earl of Leicester, making Donizetti's elaborately wrought roulades and cantilenas sound as natural as a lullaby...
...Wisconsin-born son of middle-class parents, he intended to make the Army his career. But while serving as a staff sergeant in Kansas, he was thrown into the stockade and eventually given an "undesirable" discharge for stealing a steer-an offense that he admitted but claimed was a lark...