Word: grounds
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...then followed by a quiet philosophical one-liner or two. This boiling-tea-pot method has great effects the first few times--Ray's march on the table, Dora's astonishing tirade on a swing--but can later get almost rhythmically repetitive. When Dora throws a tray to the ground suddenly after a discussion with her daughter, we are no longer shocked--there have been too many outbursts already...
...lonely/Remember that time, it was a Friday/You made me feel so fine/we did it my way/I sat on your knees every Friday" (from "Joe", a song about Dolores' well-loved grandfather). While songs like "When You're Gone" and "I'm Still Remembering" may cover old ground in terms of song lyrics, the Cranberries manage to present these well-worn ideas in such a way as to make the listener happily enjoy every little trite and banal moment...
Spies on the ground are only a small part of the problem. The big-ticket spending that is out of control has been satellites. For example, the CIA wants to build $1 billion-apiece "8X" spy satellites to photograph targets, even though it has sitting in warehouses about half a dozen satellites that have the capacity to take pictures for the next decade. The Air Force recently launched two $1 billion "Trumpet" signal intercepting satellites, which spend most of their time parked over the former Soviet Union. Furthermore, satellites may simply not be that useful. A highly classified CIA study...
...halftime [coach Anderson] said we weren't working for ground balls and [that we should] basically hustle between the restraining lines...we weren't moving the ball well, we weren't holding on to the ball in general..." Mike Marvin said. "We didn't want what we worked so hard to get [throughout the season] to slip away...
...yesterday's game, B.C. scored its runs on homers and doubles into the gap. Harvard scored on sacrifice flies and ground balls to first...