Word: saunterer
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...occasionally, as the evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...
...couple strip naked and proceed to make love while Tom and Nick debate the merits of Tom's marriage to Baba. In the last act, Tom may win back his soul by guessing three cards Nick has plucked from a deck. As a pair of black men saunter by, Tom correctly names the two of spades...
Engineers and designers at the headquarters of Apple Computer Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., are accustomed to seeing a slender figure saunter past their offices wearing frayed jeans, suede boots and a cowboy shirt. The boyish-looking fellow with the stringy mustache is Steven Jobs, Apple's chairman of the board. At 26, Jobs heads a company that six years ago was located in a bedroom and garage of his parents' house, but this year it is expected to have sales of $600 million. Like so many new entrepreneurs, Jobs is a child of California's Silicon Valley...
...West Germany-less than an hour's drive from U.S. bases in Germany and only two hours from NATO headquarters in Brussels. Most of Luxembourg's borders are untended even by customs officials, and its pine forests offer thousands of safe passageways to anyone who wants to saunter into another country. Those forests also function as hiding places for the "dead-letter boxes" that spies use to pass information...
...Harvard of the West" turned out to be little more than a conservative country club run in the guise of a university, one of the nation's best in fact. Though beautiful bodies and bare chests would occasionally saunter into classrooms after a rugged set of tennis, the brains attached to those bodies weren't always turned...