Word: wander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy English actors-Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Edith Evans, Anna Massey and Denholm Elliot -wander aimlessly around in the supporting roles...
...more-if a machine reported in a recent issue of the Naval Research Reviews is put into use. By measuring brainwaves through the use of electrodes, a device no larger than a pack of cigarettes can gauge a person's level of concentration. If his mind begins to wander, a tone sounds, jolting him from his reverie. If he continues to daydream, another alarm goes off, notifying his boss, his teacher or some Big Brother who can promptly set the dreamer straight...
...submitted to the Chief Justice, who then asks them. The Chief Justice makes procedural rulings, like any trial judge, but a majority of the Senators can overrule him, deciding, for instance, to admit or exclude a particular piece of evidence. The Senators, unlike ordinary jurors, are also free to wander in and out or even to confer with outsiders...
...spotted cow"; the owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1937 crash of the Hindenburg...
Cappella is waiting to die, but at the same time to be reborn. He can not bear to be released from the hospital even when he is healed, and he consequently reopens his wound with a yellow number 2 pencil. When he sneaks out of the hospital to wander the city streets, he carries with him a tragic note...