Word: recollecting
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...though, the men were stuck with "Rosy's" data, and Watson briefed Crick as soon as possible on what he had seen and heard. But Watson, overconfident to the point of arrogance, hadn't bothered to take notes. "If a subject interested me," he would write, "I could usually recollect what I needed. This time, however, we were in trouble, because I did not know enough of the crystallographic jargon." A key point was the amount of water present in Franklin's DNA samples. Watson remembered the number incorrectly...
...vaguely recollect first reading about quarter-life crises in my early adolescent days when I was crazy and carefree. I remember being incredulous at the sight of the article. I couldn’t imagine being 20 years old, let alone being 20 and unhappy. At 52, my Daddy is trying to do all that he wants to accomplish in his life. He’s nervous that his energy is running out and that his opportunities are limited. My years at Harvard are half over. I don’t love it here and I feel the same...
...been looking at the map upside down and had driven us very close to Cape Cod. Our anticipation had fermented into plain anger as we realized the tailgates and opening kickoff were all happening without us. As the frazzled bus driver stepped off the bus to “recollect her thoughts’” we talked seriously about hijacking the whole operation, locking her out of the bus and finishing our supply of “Finest Quality Cossack Vodka...
...work of the songwriter to the point where you say this is actually a performance by the group, rather than ‘this is a performance by Robin Hitchcock and his merry men.’” According to Hitchcock, while it is difficult to recollect the original experience of playing together and compare that to the recent reunion, he has gained perspective regarding the Soft Boys’ sound on Underwater Moonlight...
...disdainful of mystic transports: "Pythagoras may well have been/ the deepest in his learning of all men,/ and still he claimed to recollect/ details of former lives,/ being in one a cucumber/ and one time a sardine...