Word: whims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing, satisfying, but also rather flippant. When the time approaches for him to leave, however, he proposes on a whim that they fly off to Las Vegas for a night. On a whim-and perhaps on the hope of something more-she accepts...
...even be heard above the shriek of 70-m.p.h. winds. Avalanche warnings have been common all winter, especially in Switzerland, which has the world's best detection facilities (see SCIENCE). Even so, few residents pay much attention to them. Says one expert: "It's nature's whim and we have to live with...
...idea that a scholar must be free to follow his own hunches in pursuing his special studies is not the whim of some modern educator." Pusey said in 1954. "It is of the greatest importance that he know whatever he finds and reports will not penalize...