Word: whim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news media that create the bores by gushing overexposure at the slightest whim, word or fancy shown by celebrities who are, after all. only people...
...Viet Nam. An ancillary benefit might be the propping up of the Lon Nol government. The short-run military objectives have been achieved, at considerably less cost in U.S. lives than military planners anticipated. In the long run, the fate of the Lon Nol government hangs largely on the whim of Hanoi-which is why, in all his justifications of the border crossing, the President has wisely never made any public pledge to defend Cambodia's present government...
...unusual first name was a whim of Walker's mother...
...sociological points are mainly vulgarizations of important issues of the case that have already been discussed more intelligently in such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. (Some of Schiller's ramblings, though, do have a sick sense of humor about them: "It was a satanic whim which sent [the Manson tribe to the Polanski home]. But Mr. and Mrs. Middle America need not be smug. That whim could have been saved for their house...
...effort to keep warm. Her husband, a retired army colonel and career bore, schemes to prevent unknown forces from tricking him out of May's money. Alice, the colonel's daughter by an earlier marriage, wants to escape the house, where she serves her father's whim and writes morose poetry on the side. Oliver, May's son, is destined for a brilliant career, if only he could get down to choosing...