Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, there's nothing wrong with silly love songs, or silly romantic movies. But here the vignettes-from-life style makes for an awfully long 90 minutes of movie, and the random symbols of love, and fertility thrown in at every opportunity don't speed...
Last week the ban on nonresidents was struck down altogether when Wayne County Judge Marvin Stempien ruled that a random check of park users' identification violated constitutional guarantees against illegal search and seizure. Pending a possible appeal, Dearborn's parks will remain open to outsiders, and the N.A.A.C.P. has called off its ten-month-old boycott of local stores...
Robinson has a different opinion. "He [Paul] was not chosen at random to frighten students," he said, adding, "if his room being searched caused people who were thinking about dealing drugs not to, then that's a good thing...
Undergraduates interviewed last night at random in house dining halls and the Freshman Union said that the election was not well-publicized and as a result they do not know who is running for the council or when the election begins...
Well, maybe not at the well-wrought sentence or the lapidary essay. But that has never been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more...