Word: whim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
...Iacocca's verbal wrath. Never one to hide his feelings, or his ego, the Chrysler chairman blasted back. His summary dismissal, he charged, "borders on being un-American." He referred to "all the crap I've taken." He declared, "I do not appreciate being disenfranchised on somebody's whim...
...important is this information? It depends on whether the council should be democratic, supporting every whim of its constituents, or republican (I'm talking political theory, not GOP), using its best judgment. This has never been decided, but this referendum suggests the council does not know best. Andrew F. Schmid...
...GRATES WHICH blocked off the heating vents were installed on the whim of someone high-up in the Leverett House hierarchy. No students were consulted and none of the homeless people were warned. If the House master was really concerned about security, why didn't he meet with house residents to discuss the problem and the other issues--such as the poor outdoor lighting, and the fact that late at night, the dining hall door is locked, forcing students to take a longer route from McKinlock to the Leverett towers...
...decade Strindberg lived in exile (Paris, Berlin, Switzerland), and all his life he lived as a kind of pilgrim, tracking down every cracked new theory, pursuing every wild whim in the desperate hope that it might lead to the Truth. As an early modern, caught in the whirlwind and helping to agitate it, he understood that he inhabited "an age of transition"--at one moment "split and vacillating," at the next moment "urgently hysterical...