Word: interruptive
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...talk but I hate to interrupt Groucho. I spoke in public last year in Portland when I asked for a raise in salary but I don't think anyone heard me. I make a practice of speaking every time Chico makes a grand slam, so you can look for another speech in 1937. Regret I can't get Zeppo in this wire. HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...
...even your first days). It is no way to spend the rest of our lives. So the next time Fear sidles up and takes a seat across from you in the dining hall, as he prattles on about staying "on track" and finding something to do "next year," interrupt him and ask, How was your day? Have you seen any good movies lately? Have you noticed the sunny weather? Or, if you're feeling really fearless, pick up your tray, push in your chair and refuse to dine with the beast. Prove to yourself that the only thing you have...
Larissa Tsibliyev knew better than to interrupt her husband, so it was hard for her to speak up when Gagarin, the couple's beloved terrier, keeled over from the oven fumes. Too, she held her peace when the water sprinkler finally kicked in, knowing that the fire department would eventually turn the system off when it came to fight the blaze Vasily had started in the trash bin under the window. Larissa felt it was her duty not to criticize at home when things were going so poorly at work...
...larger collaborative effort, have led to one startling result. Last week Boston completed its second year without anyone under 17 being killed by a firearm. No other American city with a population over half a million can match this record. "Boston is the first city in the country to interrupt the cycle of violence that began with crack," concludes David Kennedy, senior researcher at Harvard's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management...
...done, particularly on cluster headaches. The pharmaceutical companies still don't have a pill designed specifically to protect against these attacks, although some doctors have had success treating them with lithium, a drug usually used to regulate the mood swings of manic depression. Apparently it can also interrupt the cycles of cluster headaches, although nobody yet understands why. Meanwhile, drilling holes in your head, no matter how much it hurts, is not recommended...