Word: hiccup
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...Patterson had difficulty putting the ball away, leading to long points that further exhausted him. He tried to end the match quickly, but found Beck fitter than he had expected and made several unforced errors before recovering from the brief hiccup...
Those who fret about a bubble point out that housing prices did not even hiccup during last year's recession, suggesting that they exist in their own inflated orbit. After all, more than a million jobs were lost, and homes still sold at a record pace. Greenspan was worried enough to study the issue, as have numerous other economists, including Kevin Hassett for his new book, Bubbleology. But like the Fed chief, Hassett concluded that the rise in home prices made sense even through the recession. "A bubble is when there is no right answer," Hassett says. "In this case...
...stream-of-consciousness way that one says, "ThirtydayshathSeptemberAprilJuneandNovembe ralltheresthavethirtyone"), it sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged up against a new divisive irrelevance, a phrase that seemed...
...consciousness way that one says, "ThirtydayshathSeptemberAprilJune-andNovembe ralltheresthavethirtyone"), it sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged up against a new divisive irrelevance, a phrase that seemed to demand...
Meanwhile, Trinity swept Cornell but suffered a slight hiccup in the semifinals, beating Princeton 7-2 to set up the long-awaited rematch...