Word: saunter
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...seems. The accent tumbles out of bars and restaurants; crowds of Aussies with tell-tale stripes of sunblock saunter around the dusty futuristic vastness of the Olympic complex. Everyone here points out that Melbourne's Greek population makes it the third biggest Hellenic city after Athens and Thessaloniki; it seems possible that this week Athens could just pip Brisbane in the Aussie population rankings. Nowhere is more Australian than the aquatic center this first Monday of competition. From the top of the stand the view stretches back across the city, white against the dull brown hills...
...past 20 years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted...
...effect of our late-20th-century upbringing. We come, many of us, from a sidewalk-less, SUV-saturated suburbia that is famously inhospitable to walkers. Acquiring our cars was a rite of passage; our high schools were flanked by expanses of asphalt. Most of our walking was done at saunter, as we described long, lazy circuits of the mall. In my hometown, walking seems a dangerous eccentricity; when, at home over winter break, I walked to the end of Main Street, a high-school classmate I hadn’t seen in years pulled over to ask in concerned tones...
...through an interface similar to the one used by Amazon.com. Each student will place an order in advance on a centralized website, pay with a credit card or charge the item to a termbill and then—after receiving an e-mail notification of its fulfillment—saunter into the science center to pick it up. The efficient and time-saving system is a tremendous improvement to filling out course numbers on a piece of paper, standing in line for dozens of minutes and then either paying for an order over the counter or?...
...claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating?even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book...