Word: crisscrossings
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With its shifting mix of Hispanics, oil entrepreneurs and Yankee yuppie transplants, Texas has as many constituencies as it has recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
...West Bank for military purposes and are in the process of assuming control of another one-fifth for settlements, farms and grazing. The West Bank is also being integrated into the Israeli economy: 90,000 West Bank Arabs work in Israel or for Israelis in the West Bank. Roads crisscross into the occupied territory, as do water pipes and power lines...
...spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about...
...things to all young people. It attempts to combine the insouciance of David Letterman with Carson's unflappability, mixed with generous helpings of Saturday Night Lives repertory company and rock music, plus the shtiks and skits of SCTV. The show's symbolically apt set, with its crisscross scaffolding, tacky colors and potted ferns, is a hotel-lobby hodgepodge...
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...