Word: scatteredness
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Seldes devotes her first chapter to recreating the quiet joy of her childhood: "I grew up in a home without quarrels or cruetly, where time and thoughts and friends were shared." As the book continues, however, biographical details dwindle into scattered references to a husband and daughter. Aside from her...
The vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto...
The Spanish-speaking presence in sections of downtown Los Angeles is so pervasive that other Angelenos sometimes refer to the area, with an edge in their voices, as "Baja Hollywood." Yet a strong Hispanic flavor is hardly surprising in a city that was founded in 1781 as El Pueblo de...
One drastic difference from the 1920s is that Munsonians no longer control their own town. The Ball Corp., now a diversified multinational, has moved its important operations elsewhere, and the Ball family itself is scattered, with diminished clout in Muncie. The local economy is now controlled from the out-of...
What a peculiar order Josef Mengele, the evil Nazi scientist, gives to the aging party goons he has assembled in the great house in Paraguay: Kill 94 men, all of them petty civil servants scattered around the world, and kill them on or near their 65th birthdays as they occur...