Word: yearned
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...unreasonable to yearn to live in Wyoming, a place with sparkling clean air, no income taxes and a surfeit of elbow room. Some residents of neighboring Nebraska's western panhandle want to become Wyomingites, but they do not intend to move. They want to secede...
...existence will feel compelled to add his or her two cents to the total of analyses, game and color stories, and past Super Bowl reminiscences that will crowd the new pages and ultimately bore the American populace to death. I, unfortunately, am one of those egotistical writers who yearn to impart a fresh look at the Super Bowl contest, and I would like to take the liberty of being one of the first to write about it. As someone famous once said, "Apres moi, le deluge...
...life, and their desires are connected to the violence around them. The Belfast children long to get away from that violence, even if it means not seeing their country again. The Israelis want peace with victory. The Palestinian children seek redress for wrongs done their people. The Cambodians yearn for tranquillity. Within their various desires, they show great kindliness and generosity and a high sense of fairness. This generally applies to the children of Viet Nam as well. Most of these children seek a little of each of the things sought by the others?escape, honor, victory, peace. They also...
Certain American neighborhoods once possessed a similar palpable soul, the neighborhood being the urban apartment dweller's substitute for an ancestral house and grounds. In a sense, it is the soul that Americans yearn after when they think of houses. After an earthquake or tornado, the news always lists the dead, the missing and the "homeless," the last being considered itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been...
...fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column, and she "resents" it. Mighty civilized behavior. To be sure, these people do not mean a tepid word they say. Deep in their smoking hearts what they yearn to shout is that the former boss and the gossip columnist are the putrescence of the earth, that they have the grace of herring, the brains of rock stars, that their faces would sink a fleet. They do not say so, of course. Instead, their minds flee their true feelings like...