Word: whim
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...Daniels, a blond-haired, bright-eyed Oklahoman, the prospect of going to Harvard was always more of a casual whim than a concrete goal. Though she enjoyed her visit, Daniels didn’t have her heart set on Harvard and in fact believed she would end up somewhere like Georgetown or UCLA...
...what about the rest of us? Is it really so very easy to track down drugs on a whim, just by opening a browser? In the interest of journalism, I set out to answer my own question, and found a very different world than what's described in the U.N. report. The U.N., of course, is a venerable institution with many resources, and I am just one small person - so perhaps it's not surprising that I could find no evidence of said hard-core Internet drug culture...
According to the Geneva Convention, classification as a non-POW is done by an independent third party, not on a whim. And if those who are detained are not pows, they should be charged with a specific crime. LEIF STORM Regina, Sask...
...Oyamada's whole career, somehow, seems like a whim that has grown into a full-time job. Even the inspiration for his pseudonym was arrived at by happenstance. For several nights following Flipper's Guitar's breakup in 1991, Oyamada would come home late and zone out in front of the TV, watching old Planet of the Apes series reruns...
Gellert was a throwback in that regard. In high school, he took up football in his senior season on a whim, because a buddy encouraged him to come out for the team. In that one season, he broke a 26-year old interceptions record and, as a receiver, caught 90 balls, the most of anyone in state history since...