Word: interruptive
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...sprint and the first middle-distance race, although one woman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, did win the 200 and the 400 in the '84 Los Angeles Games. But as the sign in the trainer's room at the track stadium says, PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING...
...fragmented the class, forcing the members to accelerate their college experience and, in most cases, interrupt it with a tour of duty in the military. Even with a sped-up trimester system allowing students to graduate in two-and-a-half years instead of the normal four, only 32 members of the class managed to graduate in June 1946. Most had to return after being discharged from the service to a University which had, in some sense, left them behind...
...Health Organization officials and local experts made a nine-hour river trip to the inland village, both to help contain the epidemic and to learn more about the virus that causes it. "If we can understand how the virus is transmitted from the wild, we might be able to interrupt it," explains Dr. David Heymann, head of the emerging-diseases division...
...have any other choice but to interrupt the flight. We have always been too patient, excessively tolerant...
Carol became pregnant while a sophomore in college but felt she didn't want to interrupt her education. In that year, 1983, there were 435 abortions for every 1,000 births, and she was part of those statistics. Her own mother quit school and got married when she found she was pregnant. In fact, it was her father who insisted on "giving the baby a name...