Word: whim
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...whether Musharraf could run for office while serving in the military, critics fear martial law could follow if he is declared ineligible. They are also troubled by Bhutto's failure to negotiate the repeal of a constitutional provision that lets the President dissolve the Parliament at whim...
Five years ago, two big-city businessmen visited Dale Humphrey, mayor of a small town called Popcorn, Ind. (pop. about 50). They had just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...
...After all these years, to come back on a whim and win the nationals like that, it’s a sense of satisfaction, a sense of relief, finally achieving a longtime goal that’s been hanging over my head for a while...
...unhappy deadlock could be if we could all set aside three months for uselessness. Years of cubicled summers stretch out from graduation day to the day we are too dejected or decrepit to remain in them any longer; it may as well be now that we follow a whim, refuse a job, or ignore a class...
...practically on a whim, I decided - after nearly a quarter-century of every-three-weeks hair-salon coloring - to buck convention and stop dyeing my hair. And I found to my surprise that by visually challenging my peers (if I was really gray, so must they be!), I unwittingly landed myself on the front lines of a public struggle - literally superficial but at the same time almost existentially meaningful to American women - with the vicissitudes...