Word: scatteredness
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In Baltimore, there was even more melancholy vandalism. Upon a recent midnight dreary, someone entered the Westminster Presbyterian Church graveyard and pried an 18-in. circular bronze medallion sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe's head from the shaft marking his grave. Stéphane Mallarmé was being too...
The 54 skyjacking hostages were also moved for "safekeeping." Anxious to thwart any rescue attempts, the Popular Front split them up into groups of four or five and scattered them to different hiding places. Before the fighting broke out, most were believed to be in a sprawling Palestinian refugee center...
Radioisotopes have come a long way since the dawn of the atomic age. In the first years of nuclear medicine, they could be made only at atomic energy centers, and had to be shipped long distances to hospitals. To remain effective, they had to have longer half-lives, which meant...
I can almost envy that necessity as I sit here with a dozen books scattered over my desk, a sales slip marking the first or second or fourth page of each of them.
When he finished, an indignant Yarmolinsky rose from the audience and, seething with anger, told Guinier, "All that you have said in the last ten minutes makes you unfit to be a member of the Harvard Faculty." His pronouncement was met with scattered boos and hisses which only spurred Yarmolinsky...