Word: yearn
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...rerun of these favorites as a new show. These all too familiar paintings were a disappointing sight to those who had paid the extra admission price. The only consolation was a room full of rarely shown American impressionist oils and watercolors whose novelty if nothing else made for you yearn more. This desire was likely to be unfulfilled--museums usually give space to European art rather than the more derivative American...
...time of spring's approach, as the sap runs not only in the trees but also in the body, the imagination of the would-be traveller soars to its most vertiginous heights and the intransigent pulse of wanderlust surges relentlessly through the veins. Like Shelley we yearn to be done with frozen leaves and turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does...
...millions of Americans who dream of buying a house, and for the thousands of builders who yearn to sell to them, the deep two-year decline in the housing industry could be ending. Mortgage money is again amply available after being painfully short most of last year. Deposits in savings and loan associations exceeded withdrawals by $3.1 billion during January. The new surge of money into S and Ls reflects in part the drop in interest rates on short-term investments like federal notes, which were attracting cash out of thrift institutions...
...their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face and a fresh start for the party. But for the moment, at least, Jackson is out front and going for broke. For the present, as never before in recent times, the rest of the field is clear. Says California Democratic Pro Bill Holzman...
...boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse to reside permanently in Paris...