Word: scattered
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...would dream of tampering with the majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead...
...being lazy, but not to the extreme of some of my fellow first-year sloths. They scatter their trays with a dozen cups, few filled to the brim, most empty. No one has such a thirst. And if people do, they should see a doctor. That is, before our forests have vanished...