Word: clumped
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...Central Yugoslavia has melted practically into spring. On the Mount Igman plateau, where the cross-country skiers will stride and slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump, hauling it out in what appear to be orange parachutes, dumping it down orange funnels, stomping it into the bad spots. They are sweating, if no one else is. "I can assure you, there is plenty of snow for the competition," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish president of the International...
...Suppose I told you," the Pentagon briefing expert boasted to a roomful of officers, "that on this raggedy clump of hills and beaches, we are going to humiliate one of the most arrogant powers in the world today...
...Friday, the third day of the "clump," the group occupying Ballou debated whether they should stay or go, while student opposition to the occupation became more vocal...
...Harvard reserves, joining in the home run spree with a two run drive over the right field fence in the bottom of the fourth The most significant effort by a starter came from shortstop Tony DiCesare, whose three for three outing may put an end to his early season clump...
...stage, lights pick up two corporate executives loudly casting aspersions on their parking attendant (Ronald Brown); they throw a dime tip, expecting him to scrabble. But instead Brown swings into an ebullient softshoe number, boasting of his car-parking skills; the mood lifts and lifts, and suddenly a clump of leotarded dancers inches and rolls onstage to join him, representing--incredibly--a car, white tires and all. Brown later plays a gas-meter reader whose pastime is to scare sunbathing housewives so that their bathing suit tops fall off; the conspiratorial grin with which he exits obviates any simpleminded sympathy...