Word: vacuumized
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...many people suddenly preoccupied with crime? For one thing, anxiety hates a vacuum. With worries about the cold war and the economy evaporating, the fear of crime has reared up in their place. For another, every few weeks the headlines resupply our worst imaginings. Randomly, irrationally, crime pounds at the door of a slumber party. It pulls up beside a tourist at a highway rest stop. It catches...
...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...will fall far short of full membership in the Western alliance. That status carries a sensitive and binding security guarantee -- that an attack on one is an attack on all. Central Europeans, especially the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians, have been clamoring for full membership because they perceive a "security vacuum" in the region. They argue in essence that the West is naive to believe the Russians can be anything but imperialists. NATO, they add, owes them protection as they struggle to develop democratic, free-market societies. "There is a firm assumption in American policy that reformers will finally...
...body has turned up, and Andrea's mother Linda doesn't believe Davis: "Andrea would rather be grounded than take out the trash." Linda and the local authorities think somebody made away with her daughter -- and with her life's joy. "It's like we're stuck in a vacuum, with no beginning and no ending," she says...
...most complicated mission since the moonshots of two decades ago. They would have to wrestle huge pieces of machinery into tight spaces, disconnect and connect fragile electronic equipment, and make sure no loose screws damaged the delicate telescope -- all while wearing puffy pressure suits and bulky gloves in a vacuum at zero gravity and -300 degrees F. In theory, NASA said, they could complete this orbital overhaul in five six-hour spacewalks; in practice, there would almost certainly be at least a few major flubs. If the astronauts accomplished much more than half of what they...