Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First it disrupts the domestic routine, as eggshells and quartered-orange peels are painstakingly transported from city to country to compost heap. Everything must be saved for that site: last year's annuals, the top of the lawn, wayward bits of hedge, all the archaeology of the planting season. Then the catalogs begin to multiply; one nursery carries more than 1,000 varieties of geraniums; another's pages read like a gothic romance. Since all addictions have organizations, the invitations start arriving to join the clubs. There are hundreds of groups for roses alone, not to mention the American Bamboo...
...School professor does believe, however, that the Democrats have a shot at the national contest in November. This depends on many factors, particularly the Republicans' choice of a nominee. "If it's Bush, I'll hold by my prediction. the Democrats can win," says Kalb of the wayward Vice President...
...grandchildren are always telling me what a reactionary old bastard I am." He enjoys citing the saying that a newspaper should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." But Wiggins can be a softy too. His reporters remember his weeping when a Christmas caroler from a home for wayward boys put his arms around him. Then there is the Wiggins who laughs until he tears. He passes on the latest story from his friend and sailing partner, Walter -- Cronkite, that is. Greeting visitors to his 1802 Federal house are life-size cutout figures of Frank and Ed, the yokels from...
...Ever since then we've been trying to find a legal way to get rid of the tree," said Lampoon President David S. Cohen '88. "We've been thinking of making it a home for wayward gypsy moths...
...SPORT OF NATURE by Nadine Gordimer. In her ninth novel, the distinguished South African writer tells the visionary story of a wayward young white woman's efforts to help turn her homeland over to its long-suffering inhabitants...