Word: loitering
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...Gates' hunch was vindicated in Afghanistan and Iraq, where cheaper, unmanned Predator and Reaper drones have been flying around the clock but expensive F-22s have yet to appear. Air Force Major General Charles Dunlap Jr. has written that drones are "game-changing" because of their unprecedented ability to loiter for hours, waiting for the enemy to reveal himself--and then kill him with their weapons. And yet Dunlap's service remains wedded to white scarves, cockpits and all their inherent limitations...
...Throughout the whole of its regimen, the Paul Revere battalion only appears to have one speed—brisk. Even words aren’t allowed to loiter in the mouth. In fine military style, the outfit shortens most anything that can be shortened: operations orders become “opords,” fragmentary orders “fragos,” warning orders “warnos,” and meals—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—are united under the simple moniker “chow,” or sometimes, if ovens...
...even over. Packing up before professors finish speaking is the norm in many of Harvard’s large lecture halls. Of course, a few of these early departures face a marathon dash to Vanserg and have earned the right to leave. Most, however, choose to loiter outside just moments after dashing out. These people have nowhere to go, yet they are eager to get there all the same. Big lectures lend themselves to anonymity, and no one can hold you accountable for choosing to sidle out at 12:57. But waiting for someone to finish a thought should...
...class, along with others that teach students to loiter, virtually voyage the high seas, or read science fiction, is one of a series of non-traditional courses offered this year on a campus dominated by economics and government concentrators. In the recently renovated New College Theatre yesterday, students milled about over fresh, dark mahogany floors awaiting the beginning of Professor of the Practice of Theatre Robert Scanlan’s new class on stage combat. “The first day we sat in a big circle and discussed what we’d cover,” Patrick...
...imagined, this experience proves exhilarating enough to lead him to his life's next great task. He moves to Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts and wades around a local lake, screaming obscenities at the rich people in boats motoring by. The narrator of Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter also finds himself in Texas, which offends him: "Dallas, city of the fur helicopters. Dallas--computers, plastics, urban cowboys with schemes and wolf shooting in their hearts." He hops on his black motorcycle and heads back to where he belongs: "The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl...