Word: misspent
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...billion Amount of Chinese government funds misappropriated or misspent in the first 11 months of 2005, according to state auditors...
...here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in for good measure. Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some onrushing object. Other times you'll feel your stomach descending toward your ankles. Frequently...
Democrats were perplexed, depressed and awestruck. How could Cheney get away with saying, in effect, that a vote for Kerry was a vote for terrorism? More to the point, how could Bush get away with, well, everything: a misspent youth, a lifetime of insider trading on the family name, a misfought war, a misleading inference that the invasion of Iraq had some vague relevance to 9/11, a presidency marked by rampant corporate cronyism at home and abroad? "If we can't beat this guy, with this record ..." a prominent Democrat said to me. He was unable to finish the sentence...
Moreover, the song Cash had to enact, by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, is an intense cry of pain dished out and taken--a dirge for a life misspent in rancor. "The facet of John that it explores is serious, somber and angry," Romanek notes. "But between takes, the John Cash I saw was someone more active and sprightly than he looks in the video." When Romanek asked the singer's wife June Carter Cash if she would appear briefly in the video, the Man in Black puckishly suggested, "Yeah, honey, why don't you dance naked...
...Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth in a spa. And then there are excursions for culture vultures, those the English poet Philip Larkin called "ruin-bibbers, randy for antique." Whatever form vacation takes, we keep on doing it - we may even want to do it more to escape all the talk of terror...