Word: scatteredness
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As soon as fighting broke out in the streets of West Beirut, the Lebanese government ordered the army to shoot on sight. Steel shutters rang down on storefronts. Pedestrians scattered. Car horns blared incessantly. We were interviewing a former government minister when the fighting broke out, and emerged from his...
The earth tones of furry Soviets did not charm the Yugoslavs in the bleachers, who preferred their own team's trench coats, but heartily joined with scattered Americans cheering the U.S. athletes as they waved their stetsons. Significantly, when it came to electing a flag bearer, the U.S. captains...
"He's no fool." The hungry herds can be irksome as well as pathetic. The animals knock down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by...
He is the only one around, though, who does not seem to share a vision of Sarajevo as a perennial winter playground, the expressed motive of the Olympic organizers. And as far as the mountains go, the picture is gleaming. But the city, usually deep in snow long before now...
NEARLY one-and-one half million American Indians live scattered across the country, about half in urban poverty and the other half on desolate reservations in the scrawniest parts of several Western states. Basically forgotten by the general public, the Indians have suffered the ravages of hard times economically and...