Word: wanderlied
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...those who had friends in other Houses, and those who didn’t. The have-friends dispersed, left to anxiously await further news about our burning abode as they comfortably watched TV and complained incessantly about the inconvenience to their bored friends. The friend-less were left to wander the streets, homeless and lonely, while Dean Lewis stretched out at home by a fire, smoked his pipe and patted his dog on the head. All was quiet on the administrators’ front—there was no need to bother helping students. “Chalk...
There is a magical world of mystery and whimsy tucked into the gritty folds of our everyday lives, too. You occasionally wander through this mystical realm, though you are so inured to it that you probably don’t even notice it. The inhabitants of this world look just like you and me, but if you observe closely, you may be able to pick them out—they glance about furtively, they obey the Walk-signals, they are amazed by all that brick (sidewalks even...
...distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...
...Afghanistan's youth have never known peace. For two decades, their country has been at war, first with the Soviets and then among homegrown factions. So many children wander the streets with firearms that, after a while, scenes of 12-year-olds skipping along with Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders seem almost normal. If Afghanistan is ever to settle into peace, these children will have the hardest time adjusting to a place where people don't resolve political squabbles with the pull of a trigger. "One of the most difficult things to change in our country is the younger generation...
...meet up with friends at the tailgates. (There is ALWAYS a non-exclusive tailgate on days of home football games, as the H-club teams up with another group or person and provides food to match the already abundant drink.) You revel in the tailgate merriment, and then wander over with a friend or two to the rugby field. Once you are perpetually confused by the rules to the sport , you head back to the tailgates for a bit and meet up with a few straggling friends. This back and forth between various games and tailgates continues until about...