Word: puttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting what they want out of their remaining time here. Where they are correct is that junior year is in some ways the make or break year, the year in which you will either figure out what you're doing here or decide that you will continue to putter through the rest of your college days, and make more of what follows. Either way, a certain arrogance sets in that allows juniors to think they have little left to learn, except what their thesis might teach them...
...them on sticks to line the wooden bridges over the River Thames. Streets blur with red and black--the red of double-decker buses and the black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter about their shop windows in the early morning dawn while the butcher hangs chickens with their heads down and eyes glassy. In the heat of summer, glass pint bottles full of milk stand on front steps waiting to be brought inside, and men of age with no visible signs...
...DENVER (Democratic): An autographed Broncos football; stuffed toy buffaloes; a cell phone; a putter...
...women also looked to their strong shot putter and 400 hurdler (a rare combination) in Penningroth as well as to their solid long and triple jumper, Lodewick. The Ipswich, MA native won both field events against Yale in an earlier spring dual meet and had become a regular first-place finisher...
...Sutherlands, Larry and Linda, middle Americans, are getting up in years. Larry, retired, likes to putter around the lawn with his dog, Trinket. Linda's venue is her kitchen, well-equipped, with microwave and freezer. Their home is comfy and welcoming, with wall-to-wall carpeting, a floral arrangement in the front window, wind chimes at the door and an illuminated sign hanging out the front. But the Sutherlands have no permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands...