Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHBER IS CAREFUL because he knows he has to be His field has been associated with mystics and crackpots and flower-strewn gurus who ask you for money. He goes out of his way to document his assertions, sometimes slapping seven different sources onto one sentence, as if to say "See, it isn't only me who feels this way." Among his 444 sources are a lot of counter-culture authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful...
...bright show of horsemanship, the brothers attended all of the Derby functions in Louisville between commutes to Lexington to visit their recuperating pet. At each expression of condolence, Peter Martin would say, "I'm a realist. The road to the roses is strewn with broken hearts." One inconsolable woman replied, "But I'm a dreamer." "Ah, there's your problem," he told her gently. "Dreamers get hurt...
...some 600 miles to the southeast four days later. The electronic eyes aboard each ship began working almost immediately, taking successive pictures through red, blue and green filters. This information was relayed back to earth, where the separate images were combined. Both landers provided panoramic views of a landscape strewn with rust-colored rocks. At either edge, the photographs showed patches of the orange Venusian sky, so colored because the thick atmosphere absorbs all the blue wavelengths in the light. In clarity and detail, the pictures exceeded the only previous views of Venus' surface, a series of black...
Jock reinforces all our stereotypes of the superrich. Jock was "a playboy for a while and a redoubtable one: the wild oats he sowed were strewn from coast to coast and across an ocean. But he tired of that in due course. He could not abide the second rate--not in horses, not in paintings, not in wines, not in clothes, not in women, not in anything. "For Kahn, greenbacks keep the blueblood circulating...
...regions of the world long tormented by war. What he returned with was an intensely personal account of how children view life when it might explode before their eyes at any moment. The project began when Rosenblatt saw a TV clip of a crying baby in a gutted, rubble-strewn street in the Middle East...