Word: ingrown
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...assess the situation in South Carolina. An academy panel concluded last year that DOE was torn by the "conflicting responsibilities" of meeting production quotas while maintaining safety. Operation of the facilities, it said, had been left in the hands of "largely self-regulated contractors," while safety oversight was "ingrown and largely outside the scrutiny of the public...
...Harvard lineup may suffer from the loss of Oja, a sophomore, who is suffering from an ingrown toenail...
...mole who tries to foil Preston, is no more stale or unbelievable than most. Freshness and credibility, in any case, are not requirements. Perhaps the reason is that Preston is without a side. Le Carré would have given him a faithless wife, or at least an ingrown toenail, to tease the mind with antiheroic irony...
...train stopped in New Haven, he dashed out to telephone his office. The Metroliner pulled out before he could finish, leaving him stranded. By the time he reached Manhattan on a slower train, many of the potential givers had left. Later in the week he had to have an ingrown toenail surgically treated. In his haste to catch an airplane, he locked his keys in his wife...
...more forcefully than anyone else. Andropov is the consummate Communist Party operative, a nearly faceless toiler in the political establishment of the U.S.S.R. all his adult life, head for 15 years of that quintessentially Soviet organization the KGB, a man who attained power by sophisticated backstage maneuvering in the ingrown, secretive Politburo...