Word: rote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What possesses him is an empty, aimless ambition that forces him to do his piecework as if by rote. His one source of solace is an occasional visit to a friend, Militina, now grown old and a little crazy, who spends his time in the madhouse giving political speeches and reading a child's biography of Spartacus...
...speech. As they wait in the bomb bay for their one shot at glory, the bombs chatter brightly with the spacemen. The crew, well bored with one another by this time, talk more with the machines than among themselves. Their life of daily risk is done nearly by rote. They are bleak, melancholy, and running out of toilet paper...
...national stereotypes about sexual behavior were true, the first speaker would be a Frenchwoman, the second a bored American husband performing his marital duties by rote. Actually it is the other way round; moreover, their sentiments typify those of their compatriots, according to two new sex surveys recently published on opposite sides of the Atlantic...
...coddle its audience. While everything in Hebrew also appears in English, none of the Hebrew is transliterated for those who might like to speak the Hebrew words but cannot read the characters. Moreover, the profusion of optional readings and songs may confuse those who prefer a follow-by-rote handbook to one that allows many individual variations. For the confused, though, the Haggadah's liturgists promise some help next year: a cassette recommending the best ways to use this rich and innovative ritual...
Amidst the hubbub, Rote quietly took second place in the bicycle race. Having placed second in golf and taken top honors in tennis, bowling and swimming, Rote, 23, piled up more points than his older and more famous competitors. During the soccer season he had earned about $1,500 playing center forward for the Dallas Tornado. As a superstar champ, he collected $53,400. As a divinity student who aspires to the Episcopal ministry, he was nonplussed by the sudden lucre ("I feel almost embarrassed by winning"). He announced that he would give some of his winnings to charity...