Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to know what Craig Biggio is all about and what he really means to the team, look no farther than the clincher against the Cubs last Thursday. He got drilled in the back of the head by a Jeremi Gonzalez fastball. The crack was audible on the replays, so you know it had to hurt like hell...
None of us bothered to think that maybe the most important people we would meet at Harvard weren't even here yet, or that some of those wonderfully well-adjusted people we had met the day before would crack before second semester, or that three of our classmates would be dead before junior year. Yes, Harvard Yard is occupied by ghosts: not the ghosts of the Cabots and the Lowells, but the ghosts of the people who we used to know and the people who we used...
Only until you've felt the crack of a ball hitting the sweet spot of your Big Bertha or the rush of sinking your first par putt can you know just how powerful and alluring this sport is. There is nothing like smashing a ball to kingdom come to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step...
...immediately condemned the attack, promised to cooperate in hunting terrorists and ordered the detention of 10 leaders of Hamas, which had quickly taken responsibility for the blast. But Netanyahu, while touring a Jerusalem hospital filled with the wounded, vowed to back away from peace talks if Arafat doesn't crack down on the radical Islamists. Israelis again locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip, keeping 100,000 Palestinians who commute to Israel out of work, and rounded up suspected Islamist militants...
JERUSALEM: Reeling from Thursday's triple suicide bombing that left four Israelis dead, and an Hizbollah ambush in Lebanon that took the lives of 11 Israeli crack troops, Israel appears ready to make good on its threats to invade Palestinian-ruled territory to root out Islamic militants...