Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banal red light plays over them; in the middle is a table, perhaps a sacrificial altar, and the whole cave is strewn with what seem to be mummified joints of meat. These are not identifiably human; if anything, they resemble small legs of lamb. But they suggest the dread cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey, strewn with fragments of unspeakable meals. The title is The Destruction of the Father...
...policy, to adopt new tactics and even to eat a few words. ("I have eaten a great many of mine," said Winston Churchill, "and on the whole, I have found them a most wholesome diet.") Every successful President eventually learns that flexibility is salvation. The presidential bone yard is strewn with markers of those who would not change...
WHILE MOST OF THEIR contemporaries were at costume parties or at horror flicks, four college-aged volunteers spent last Saturday night at a deserted 73 Tremont St. office building in a small third floor law office, making phone calls. Green and white signs hung on the walls, brochures were strewn over the floors, and each person was pouring over a long computer list of names. "Good evening. I'm working for Frank McNamara for Congress. We think Tip O'Neill is no longer in touch with the district, and ...Hello, Hello...
Vanserg's offices are uniquely responsible for the hall's bizarre character: they are strewn about the building with all the order of shrapnel in a minefield...
Trying to establish a coherent policy on how Harvard should vote on such resolutions is first on the ACSR's agenda this year, and it will not be easy, or, possibly, even attainable. The path to unanimity is strewn with uncertainty on this fractious 12-member body, and this path is cluttered now by the enormous complexity of the nuclear issue. This complexity dwarfs such heated topics South Africa investments...