Word: strayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics aside, Kelly's request reflects a brutal truth: the United States is failing to protect its citizens. In almost every large American city, some people live in constant fear; some parents force their children to sleep in bathtubs to avoid stray bullets from armed gangs' ongoing gun battles...
...state." Here the dreams of all of the citizens of the empire are brought and interpreted, in the hopes of finding within them a "signal [sent] to the earth" by Allah. Omens in the forms of dreams are sought because "the interpretation of that dream, fallen like a stray spark into the brain of one out of millions of sleepers, may help to save the country or its Sovereign from disaster." Every week, a Master-Dream is sent to the Sultan, supposedly containing information crucial to the governing of the empire. The dynamics of the Palace are as mysterious...
...test itself. There was a lot of underlining, a lot of chicken-scratching, and a lot of swiveling. The proctors checked our identification several times throughout the four-and-a-little hours we spent in the slightly chilly room. I filled in at least 125 bubbles--completely, leaving no stray marks. I didn't bend, fold, spindle or mutilate the answer sheet. Then I gave my paper away, knowing that soon enough I would be converted to yet another number...
...those strands the hair nets just don't catch (and other unsavory human drippage inevitable in a kitchen) aren't ever found in my food. Just pink hearts, yellow diamonds, blue moons, orange stars, green clovers, red balloons, teensy rainbows and the occasional stray raisin...
...disappearance and possible abduction took place while Landin was speaking to friends outside the restaurant, he says. He had allowed Potato to wander freely, as he often did, and two women allegedly mistook her for a stray and took her home. She had no leash or collar at the time...