Word: accordioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scientists have known for a while that it is the shifting of tectonic plates that produces earthquakes. What scientists should be grateful to learn is that the reason the plates shift is that somebody is playing the piano accordion. Tectonic plates are very sensitive: they cannot abide the sound of accordion playing, and when they hear all that caterwauling, they shift uncomfortably, jolting the Richter scale to A above high C. It is no coincidence that earthquakes occur wherever huge numbers of accordion players congregate. Many of them are said to be aswarm in eastern China, where earthquakes are common...
Spectators clapped and cheered from the sidelines, little kids held out water and orange slices, one strange woman wore rabbit ears and played the accordion for us. My race belongs in part to all of them that yelled at me to run harder when I was dogging it, that ordered me to run when I was in so much pain that it was all I could do to take another step...