Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take-off point. He knows where his ship is supposed to go, and roughly how fast and in what direction it is flying. His job is to find out, by observation, where it really is. Such factors as wind and misbehavior of the gyrocompass can make the ship wander far off its course...
...Independent movie-theater owners who seldom permit their eyes to wander from the cash register to the screen, were polled by the Independent Film Journal on their favorite movie and stars of the 1953-54 season. Top-money movie: From Here to Eternity (Columbia). No. 1 actor: John Wayne. No. 1 actress: Marilyn Monroe...
Thomas R. Hart, Jr., Instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, was worried that Radcliffe and Harvard students, used to leading, a soft life with no afternoon or weekend classes, might "wander" into class at 8:15, thereby missing part of the exam...
When interruptions cease, some of the victims try desperately to think about their studies, or to occupy themselves with intellectual problems. For the most part, they fail. Little by little their brains go dead or slip out of control. They cannot concentrate; their thoughts wander aimlessly. Their arithmetic drops to primary-school level...
...McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea don't get up from their graves with disgust...