Word: yearning
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Adults who yearn to clip the nation's longhairs keep running into a formidable obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Take the school officials in Williams Bay, Wis., who insist that boys with shoulder-length locks distract other students from their studies. Last year the officials ordered two hairy boys, Thomas Breen, 17, and James Anton, 19, to get , haircuts or get expelled. Spurning both choices, the shaggy ones asked a federal district court to declare the order unconstitutional. When the court obliged, the would-be clippers continued their fight right up to the Supreme Court...
...presidential party inaugurating the computer, Colossus flashes a brief, cryptic message: "THERE is ANOTHER SYSTEM." The Soviets have created a similar computer, called Guardian, and the two machines curtly inform their human creators that they yearn to be interconnected. The respective governments at first refuse, but missiles launched by the computers at a couple of strategic military targets are powerfully persuasive. From then on it's Colossus-Guardian all the way. The combined brains murder and create, dominate and control mankind, all for the greater good. "Freedom is an illusion," the machine announces in a raspy voice...
...violence. His plays are comedies because their people suffer not from external evil or forces, and not from a mixture of nobility and tragic error leading through suffering to transcendental knowledge and sympathy, but only from their own romantic fancies. The plays are comedies because like all comedies they yearn for new energy and finally see glimpses of it. But Chekhov does not offer hope surreptitiously. He merely says that despite all of this, happiness may be possible. Comedy does not have to end happily, only be true to itself...
...words yearn for the meat
With eleven people in the four-bedroom apartment, it is no wonder that the Watkins children yearn to go elsewhere. But where? The older ones can walk to the movies-27 blocks away. The younger ones can attend a Head Start program or either of two nearby elementary schools. But Crane High School, with its athletic facilities, is a mile away and the round trip by bus costs...