Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take stock for a moment. To name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers...
Despite its random clothing selection and diminuitive dressing rooms, 'Black and Blues' is a one-of-a-kind find. First of all, prices are incredibly low, especially when compared to the typical Harvard Square boutique. Next, the store is only a hop, skip and a jump from the Davis T-stop, and it's located next to a tempting bakery, "Salt and Pepper's," where the indulgent can grab a post-shopping treat. Furthermore, C.J. will win over even the toughest-to-please clients with his charming smile and friendly (but not overbearing) approach...
...been effectively destroyed. Perhaps I could have checked my roommates' clocks, but they were having similar time-related problems that made invading their rooms difficult--one was in the habit of going to bed and waking up early to take seven-hour practice MCATs, while the other slept at random hours, adding up to about six hours per day over each three-day period but otherwise conforming to no particular pattern. I found myself calling home and slyly asking my parents what time it was, but even this proved difficult, since they are in the normal-people habit of going...
...even when looking at a clock, I often doubt my own ability in reading it. Have I really been working for four straight hours on this paper? Or, conversely, has this incredibly boring person really only been lecturing for 17 minutes? And when I see my roommate sleeping at random hours and hear students panicking over the exact minute when an assignment is due, I sense that I am not alone in my confusion, or in my fear...
...religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned the trick of looking for long seconds into a listener's eyes while reciting apocalyptic prophecy in tones of sexual love. And he had opals...