Word: scatteredness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blarney. Clonbrony was a fiasco that began when a band of poorly organized and inadequately armed Fenian nationalists tried to take the local police barracks, and ended with the attackers scattered into the trees and hunted down one by one. Blood was drawn but no honor satisfied. The participants became...
Similar reasoning applies to Mengistu's much criticized policy of "villagization," which coerces peasants to move from their scattered farms into village collectives. "What makes developing countries really backward is their inability to benefit from modern science and technology," Mengistu told TIME in an interview last year. "People live in...
Even more impressive is Osiris and Isis. According to Egyptian mythology, the god Osiris was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set. All the parts of his body except the penis were then reassembled for burial by his sister- wife Isis, so that he could have eternal life. An immense...
The unrest that has been plaguing the country since Duvalier fled reached a peak as voting day drew near. Two presidential candidates were killed, and scattered violence took place in both the capital and in the countryside. In the week before the voting was to have taken place at least...
Somewhere south of Fredericksburg, Va., exhaustion obliterates caution. Turn off into a mercury-lit nightmare. Motels, shopping strips and truck stops lie scattered on the landscape. Out of the chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to...