Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves. The mother of American Speed Skater Leah Poulos Mueller, who has sharpened her daughter's skates through 20 years of competition and two earlier Olympics, found herself banned from facilities at the rink, but a Lake Placid teenager let out of school for the grand holiday could wander in and stare at the stars...
...most ways, Malville is a tunelessly idyllic French village. Chickens wander the lanes that link the stone farmhouses, while cows graze alongside the clear Rhone River. Yet the hamlet (pop. 50), located about 30 miles east of Lyon, has a strikingly modern feature. Within a large fenced-off area, tall construction cranes hover over a huge concrete cylinder that will contain the world's most advanced nuclear power plant, a fast-breeder reactor christened Super Phenix...
...ceasefire. Though some 21,600 guerrillas have reported to 14 assembly points, the truce is marred almost daily by sporadic clashes and acts of banditry and lawlessness. British authorities attribute most of the violations to ZANU guerrillas loyal to Mugabe, several thousands of whom remain at large or wander in and out of the camps at will. The 1,200 Commonwealth troops monitoring the cease-fire seem powerless to stop them...
MANY YEARS before they committed Chuck Green, he would wander Harlem streets, listening to the city, tapping. One night, from a dingy basement cafe came an odd, whining tune: "Got no maps on my taps." Green liked the song, liked singing it to himself. During the years in the hospital, when his mind was clearly out of synch with reality, his feet kept tapping in perfect rhythm to his song. His tap dancing, which had earned him his living on the outside, now became a form of therapy on the inside...
...last act of [Wagner's] Meistersinger, laughing at Beckmesser, who is a comic character. Or, another one from Samson and Delilah, the Bacchanale scene which ends in Samson's knocking down the pillars, is a drunken orgy. You're supposed to be doing whatever you want, so you wander around and slap people on the shoulders in no apparent order onstage. I was talking to people and revelling and having a good time...