Word: wanderings
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...would wait and wait and wait [for Elliott]," he says. "Eventually the door would open and this pudgy undergraduate would wander out having taken two or three hours of his time, and that was Henry...
...felt as good as he does on e was when he found out he had won a Rhodes scholarship. He enjoys feeling logorrheic: ecstasy users often talk endlessly, maybe about a silly song that's playing or maybe about a terrible burden on them. E allows the mind to wander, but not into hallucinations. Users retain control. Jack can allow his social defenses to crumble on ecstasy, and he finds he can get close to people from different backgrounds. "People I would never have talked to, because I'm mostly in the Manhattan business world, I talk to on ecstasy...
Would we be safer if police had plenipotentiary powers? Certainly we would curb more crime if police could wander through our homes looking in closets and drawers or stopping and searching any person or car they chose. But the genius of American liberty is the recognition that public safety is not always the highest civic goal, and it may come at too high a price...
Current offerings include shows like "A Bunch of Villagers Getting Eaten," a serial where animated characters do the moonwalk as they wander around a tropical land searching for the culprit who is systematically eliminating their people...
...hard to see why people would have serious reservations about letting John Hinckley wander freely through the Washington, D.C., suburbs. This is the man, after all, who shot four men, including President Ronald Reagan, outside a Hilton hotel in 1981, in a desperate cry for attention from the object of his obsession at the time, actress Jodie Foster. While no one has quite figured out how Hinckley established a causative connection between Reagan's death and Foster's affections, doctors report there have been significant breakthroughs during the would-be assassin's 18-year incarceration in the psychiatric ward...