Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government. Kilson said he runs two miles every day that he can. "I started running for my health two months ago, but now it's a pleasure," he said, adding that running has become "compulsive" and that he "hates" to miss a day because of things like traveling that interrupt his routine...
...wonders why her husband is gloomy and depressed; why he has begun to drink heavily only to get some sleep. But she is so unaware of what is really happening that she doesn't bother to interrupt her routine: shopping, clothes, social events, and petty back-biting. Even when she accompanies her husband to the Watergate hearings, she is still preoccupied...
...Diamond insisted that the machine could not be turned off, for "no physician will ever interrupt a device that is performing lifesaving functions." The experts agreed that despite the seriousness of Karen's condition, she meets none of the accepted criteria for determining death. She has not suffered "brain death," the legal measure of death in eight states-though not New Jersey. An electroencephalograph shows that there is still brain activity. She has, on occasion, breathed spontaneously, for up to half an hour, though most experts doubt that she could do so much longer without...
...telling the "actually very well known story" about the origins of Watership Down, how his children persuaded him to write down the tale, how publisher after publisher rejected it because it was too long and intricate to be children's literature. His eyes gleam, and it's impossible to interrupt him as he goes over the history of the two children's fiction awards (about this time his agent, a rather large woman, stops paying attention to the interview); then he says that only four other writers have even sold a million paperback copies in England-Homer, Chaucer, George Orwell...
...loosening up. The stereo rig blares, though Misha may interrupt it to recite the Russian poetry - Pasternak, Mandelstam, Pushkin - he loves. Records of Florence Foster Jenkins' haywire coloratura are another new enthusiasm. He enjoyed a recent trip to Paris because "there, people have more time than in New York." He is absorbing the American pace, however. When Gelsey Kirkland stalled at a recent photo session, he nudged her with "Let's go, Gelsey...