Word: whole
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...basic science. You never know where the main road is really going to take you." Agrees Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, a Nobel prizewinner in theoretical physics: "Maybe we will discover some weird particle for which there is no experimental evidence, and that would open a whole new chapter in elementary-particle physics...
They were not really epiphanies. The way he tells it, Marcus Roberts' decisive moments of musical inspiration -- those times when you hear a tune and your whole life changes -- were more like . . . bumps. No epic moments. Just a few small occasions of collision...
There is much work for us to do in the next three years. Ratifying our contract was just the beginning. The writing of our constitution and by-laws must be of immediate concern to the whole union membership. We must provide for membership election of all officers and stewards. We must legislate regular membership meetings where important issues can be debated openly and fairly. We must institute a system of recall and accountability for leadership positions and decisions. And most of all, we must start turning to each other and our own selves--ordinary rank-and-file members--for ideas...
Toad yearned always for the wild walking, of course. But he sighed the sigh of resignation. The whole world now is a beaten track. Even if Toad went to the moon for a hike, he would find footprints there...
...course, a layering of past and present. The South's agricultural and religious roots, its history of slavery, and the evolution of its race relations and economy are played off against the comments of people trying to understand the small parts of what Naipaul eventually conveys as a whole: a region of America that is like an emerging nation within a nation...