Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convivial and outspoken Stone, 54, is ready to try again, this time as President Reagan's special envoy to the roiling governments of Central America. Stone's daunting new job, says Deane Hinton, the American Ambassador in El Salvador, will be "to wander around Central America and straighten everything out." Although most State Department officials bristled at the President's choice, saying they would have preferred a career diplomat, one defended Stone as a "doer" with the proper credentials: "A great big foot, a thick skin and a great big mouth...
...Quixote's attempts to act like an old cavalier show "a rather limited schoolboyish imagination in the way of pranks." As for the author, "Cervantes. . . seems to have had alternate phases of lucidity . . . and sloppy vagueness, much as his hero was mad in patches." Don and squire wander and blunder through Spain, tilting at customs and rituals, obscure priests and famous windmills. En route, they are beaten and humiliated in "a veritable encyclopedia of cruelty." Even the animals suffer so greatly, admits Cervantes, that if a horse "had possessed the power to complain, you may be sure that...
...good weather a bus takes 20 residents a day on outings to nature areas, shopping malls, or "dinners out," and in the springtime ambulatory patients will be able to wander on the grounds...
When the warmups end and most of the players skate off, two will linger on the ice. Freshman goalie Grant Blair will seem to wander aimlessly and senior winger Greg Britz will likely circle around the rink, sending a few more pucks into the empty nets, while Coach Bill Cleary stands at the bench, calling both...
Dissatisfied as they are almost none of the characters leave the home turf of West Virginia. In "Trilobites," one of the finest stories the young man Colley is tempted to wander, to Michigan or may be even Germany or China. His father has died: his mother wants to sell the farm ("about the last real farm left") and move north: and he is no good at farming anyway. But he is held by the past his own past and the palpable history of the country he knows so well. When Colley thinks of leaving he sees "the spot of ground...