Word: siochdna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refuses to fly. He does not drive. He was once stopped by the police in Los Angeles for the highly suspect act of walking at night through his residential neighborhood. He was also detained by the Irish Garda Siochdna (Civil Guard) for being "drunk, and in charge of a bicycle." Ray Bradbury would seem, from his prodigious output, to be the most sedentary of men. He is, in fact, one of the most peripatetic. By bus, boat, train and car, he has thoroughly explored the U.S., Mexico, Ireland and Europe. By means of his imagination, he has penetrated the farthest...
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