Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best sailors went ahead to sight land first." Actually, the lonely little formation had not yet reached mid-Atlantic: boatswain birds wander hundreds of miles from land and the seaweed was the Sargasso...
Just like football. With speed and elusiveness you can spin through any defensive backfield. Like those Cornell backs--all track stars. He realized, too late, that he should never have allowed his mind to wander onto football. It was not a topic he wanted to think about...
...happier, too. They do little work. Some of them sublimate their head-hunting desires by taking monkey skulls; others make a play for the tourist trade with performances of native dances. And now that the harsh days of the Japanese Guard Line are gone, the aborigines are free to wander down to Taipei for an occasional glimpse of civilization...
...course it's nice," wrote the Communist Neues Deutschland, explaining the purpose of the new Aufklärungsdampfer (enlightenment steamer), "to lie in the broiling sun and let the mind wander [but] amid the joy over peace it is all too easy to forget that one has to do something to preserve peace. Today one can discuss [world affairs] at complete ease in a bathing suit on the beach or floating in a fat inner tube . . . Should excitable natures flare up during the discussion, there is a simple solution-jump in the water...
...able is do for the simple reason that the students don't know a large majority of the other students and because of the fact that most of the universities are in large cities where they must be bound, and unduly so, by the city ordinances. If you wander around other campuses on House Party Weekends then I am sure that you will see sights that you did not see or would not see at Williams, because we have learned that parties can sometimes...