Word: scattered
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...state in the first place, but there will be a lot more to make you come back. As the state tourism board jingle goes, "Oh, Kentucky--you'll come to love it"--and there's no better time to come than on that sunny May morning when 80 hooves scatter mud across Churchill Downs.A year-round influx of heavy-duty horse-fanatic millionaires has created a unique character in central Kentucky. Mercedes sedans park next to Chevy trucks; Red Man-chewing Joe Bob the horse trainer rubs elbows with Arabian princes...
...College population. However the real would is till of these stcrcotspes. My home the San Francisco Bay area is a prime example. As is well known we have a considerable gay community in San Francisco. They seem to be very happy there. Should the government force them to randomly scatter around the country, say to the South and the Mideast (commonly referred to as the Midwest) denying them their "mutual support groups." I should hope not Gays like Harvard students, should be allowed to choose where and with whom they want to live. After all, we are all adults...
There is even more to it than the exotic scatter of events. As always, the truly Big Picture is an array of infinitesimal glimpses: the swimmer understanding that she has lost, the gymnast glancing back at the Scoreboard with a double take, almost panicky, to make sure the 10 really was a 10. Moments before victory, moments without victory, moments beyond victory. All of them Olympic...
Perhaps the most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back...
...assignment" or "focus" in their writing. Of course no one "really" knew what the assignment was, least of all her--until she had read the paper. The students in that "section" constantly believed that they were being set up to be knocked down, penalized for the lazy, scatter-brained behavior of the instructor...