Word: blinks
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...clock read 19:29, Harvard was already down a goal, and Grumet-Morris was trying to blink and squint his way back to consciousness...
...estimated turnover of $9 billion a year. So the ICC has drawn up a list of around 100 "undesirables" to keep an eye on. With more than $5 million in prize money available - the winning side gets $2 million - under a battery of TV cameras that capture almost every blink, smile, spit and curse, and now help the umpires make hairline decisions on whether a batsman should be called in or out, the players should have plenty more to think about than match fixing. Once played sedately on the village greens of England and known as the gentlemen's game...
...Wendy, my interviewer, indicated she didn’t quite share my enthusiasm for frozen treats. The final test to assess my coolness quotient was to talk about a college event and pick a video to go along with it. I talked about good old primal scream and chose Blink 182’s “What’s My Age Again?” video, where everyone runs around sans clothes. Wendy appeared amused, but I think she might have cringed at the thought of Harvard kids running around wearing nothing but our Coke-bottle glasses...
Ingram made a perfectly timed rush to the high slot when she saw junior winger Lauren McAuliffe holding the puck just onside at the point. In the blink of an eye, the puck was in the back of the net, as Ingram one-timed a McAuliffe pass with expert precision...
...years of suffering at the hands of the virus, the human race gathered all its wit and cunning and conquered the scourge, eradicating it forever. Well, forever lasted less than 25 years. It does not bode well for the future of our species that it took but a blink of the eye for one of history's worst killers to make a comeback--not on its own, mind you, but brought back by humans to kill again...